Michelle Thaller
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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And there shouldn't have been time for those two areas of space to ever get to know each other.
There shouldn't have been time.
It's like, you know, everything came to the same temperature everywhere you look.
Why?
It's sort of thinking like if I have a coffee cup, you know, the coffee cup eventually comes to exactly the same temperature.
You know, everything becomes thermally equilibrium.
Everything comes to the same temperature.
You wouldn't expect your coffee cup to be like, you know, 300 degrees on one side and, you know, minus 50 on the other.
Somehow, the universe had a chance to all come to the same temperature, even though those areas of the universe were so far apart, they should never have had a chance to touch each other.
And that became part of the thinking that maybe at one point when the universe was that large, things were much smaller.
The universe did have a chance to come to this exact same temperature all over.
Boy, I hope I can see it by your expression.
I should do a better job of explaining this.
Yeah.
So this is one of the best proofs that things were small, that you look back to this microwave background radiation, and we're talking fractions and fractions of a degree.
The first NASA satellite that observed it was called COBE, and then the Cosmic Microwave Explorer.
And then there was a new one in the 1990s called WMAC, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.
Oh, yes, good.
And they measured this...
you know, down to hundreds of thousands of a degree, right?
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