> >Actually, the prediction by Geo. (which he pronounced `Joe')
Gamow
> >was 50 degrees K.
>Damien I think you're wrong [and John cited various people not called
Gamow in support]
I should have gone to my shelf. Here's Geo., in THE CREATION OF THE
UNIVERSE (1952):
`Thus when the universe was 1 second old, 1 year old, and 1 million years
old, its temperature were 15 billion, 3 million, and 3 thousand degrees
absolute, respectively. Inserting the present age of the universe (t=10^17
sec) [...] we find
Tpresent = 50 degrees absolute
which is in reasonable agreement with the actual temperature of
interstellar space.' (p. 48)
Damien Broderick