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jayhills49

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on: Jul 27, 2018
Approximately how many brown dwarfs are believed to exist in the Milky Way galaxy?
 
  A) 100,000
  B) one million
  C) one billion
  D) one hundred billion
  E) ten trillion

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How does the cosmic background radiation relate to the Big Bang?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

After the Big Bang the universe was filled with only radiation. It was a radiation dominated universe. After protons and neutrons formed the universe was opaque to radiation. Photons couldn't travel far without interacting with an electron. So nothing was visible. At the time of the decoupling, the universe become transparent to radiation and photons could travel with scattering off electrons except at very specific wavelengths. The artifact of this period of decoupling, when photons were first able to travel great distances, is the 3 K cosmic background radiation.


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