Significance of the Isotropic
Radio Background
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It was predicted years in advance by George
Gamow as a natural consequence of a ÒBig-
BangÓ cosmology.
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It such a scheme, it is the glow from the
time when the universe became transparent,
about 100,000 years after its creation.
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Other cosmologies have no natural
explanation for this phenomenon.