If the Temperature of the CMB Changes with Redshift Z

question 54

Essay

If the temperature of the CMB changes with redshift z as T = T₀(1 + z), and the recombination happened when the universe was about 1,000 times smaller than at the present time, what was the temperature at the time the universe became transparent to photons?

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