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About 380,000 years after the beginning the universe turns clear and light travels for the first time: the glow still seen as the cosmic microwave background.
The mechanism
LIGHT BEFORE THE SUN — the first light is nine billion years older than the sun
How it was checked
- EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: ADDED 2026-09-18
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — ESA/Planck Collaboration, Cosmic Microwave Background all-sky map, 2018 data · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cosmic_Microwave_Background_(54445461354).png
- SourcesMEASUREMENT — the cosmic microwave background, released at recombination (Planck 2018)
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