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This is the history of the universe in the Big bang model.

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It shows the currently accepted model . The CMB appears at 380.000 years after the origin of the Big Bang. Before that , up to 10^-32seconda from the origin of the Big bang, our theoretical knowledge of particle physics is heavily used. The CMB happens when due to inflation the universe cools enough so that photons can decouple from the rest of the particle soup and thus keep a snapshot of the distribution of matter at the time of decoupling.

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The detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe created from nine years of WMAP data. The image reveals 13.77 billion year old temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) that correspond to the seeds that grew to become the galaxies. The signal from the our Galaxy was subtracted using the multi-frequency data. This image shows a temperature range of ± 200 microKelvin

In has small non uniformity from the black body radiation curve

the root mean square variations are only 18 µK

on a 2.7K black body radiation curve, and those are the features in the image above.

It carries information on the seeds of galaxies and cluster of galaxies. In this sense it validates the Big Bang model.

So it validates the Big Bang model, together with a number of other observations.

The CMB is heavily red shifted because of the expanding universe, and one way of finding the age of the universe is in using the standard model of particle physics and thermodynamics to get at the Black body radiation curve at the time of decoupling.

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