In Popular Culture
- In the Stargate Universe TV series, an Ancient spaceship, Destiny, travels to an artificial source of CMBR with indications that the universe as we know it might have been created by some form of sentient intelligence.
- In Wheelers, a novel by Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen, CMBR is explained as the encrypted transmissions of an ancient civilization. This allows the Jovian "blimps" to have a society older than the currently-observed age of the universe.
Read more about this topic: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
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