Wednesday, October 4, 2017

cosmology - When was the cosmic background radiation in the visible spectrum?


From what I understand about the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is that it was from the big bang, and since space has streched and become bigger since then the wavelength of the CMBR has increased over time, which means that when the universe stopped being opaque it wasn't microwaves but gamma rays, that must mean that it went from gamma rays to x-rays to ultra violet to visibile light (blue then all the way to red) then infra red and now microwave.


So the question is simply, at what point in time could someone have looked up in the sky and seen light from all directions? And how intense was this light?




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