Tag Archives: cosmic microwave background

The Hubble Bubble.

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Janek asks

I would be interested in a further post detailing roughly how we’ve calculated the size of the observable universe.

Okay. Actually I’m more than happy to answer this because the answer is relatively short and it’ll let me bunk off science posts for a week.

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Inflation Theory.

edge

In which I tackle one of the things that for a long time seemed like a colossal fudge to me, but which has an ever-increasing weight of evidence supporting it: inflation theory.

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