I suspect the shape of the curve is due to adding up a whole bunch of
unrelated things with some lower wavelength boundary, just like the
"law of large numbers" theorem, that shows adding up random numbers
gives a normal distribution (bell-shaped curve). The same might be
said of the black body
Frank,
> On May 13, 2020, at 7:31 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>
> When I worked at the PIttsburgh Supercomputing Center, a division of CMU, we
> had a user who produced a visualization of the first few milliseconds after
> the big bang. How can they do that?
>
> Didn't Penzias and Wilson win
When I worked at the PIttsburgh Supercomputing Center, a division of CMU,
we had a user who produced a visualization of the first few milliseconds
after the big bang. How can they do that?
Didn't Penzias and Wilson win the Nobel Prize for showing that the
background radiation caused by that
Jon --
It's a mystery to me. I believe they are simply counting the number of
spectral lines at each wave number and plotting the histogram. And the
link is between the now and the very long ago. And I believe there's no
reason to expect this histogram to have any particular distribution at
Roger,
I get the sense that this is a link between the very small
and the very large, but I am far from being a physicist.
Could you say more about this result?
Jon
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.20233
Possible Link between the Distribution of Atomic Spectral Lines and the
Radiation–Matter‐Equilibrium in the Early Universe
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As the authors say, quoting Asimov, that's funny.
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