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1. The Cosmic Microwave Background and Prizewinning Cosmology (a) How can we see the CMB if the...

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1. The Cosmic Microwave Background and PrizewinningCosmology

(a) How can we see the CMB if the photons were released 14billion years ago? Shouldn't those photons be billions of lightyears away by now?

(b) Who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics? What wasthe prize for-- what were the results, and how were theyobtained?

(c) Why are these results from part (b) important?

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