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Re:First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations by throwawaycities on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:29PM (#30735682)
> That's not what the CMB is. The CMB is an incredibly uniform pattern which appears to have been formed by a very hot plasma at some point in the past.

I understood that the CMB is not photons from plasma but the first photons following recombination (when the universe cooled enough that electrons and protons formed first hydrogen atoms). In other words the universe was plasma just before the CMB.

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Re:First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations by cyphar on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:16PM (#30762093)
Yes, you're quite right -- sorry for not being precise enough. However my point was that the fact that we cannot see beyond the CMB and the uniformity of the pattern both point towards a Big Bang-esque explanation.
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