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Article: On the nature of the microwave background at the Lagrange 2 point. Part II.
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- Progress in Physics
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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In this work the mathematical methods of General Relativity are used to answer the following questions: if a microwave background originates from the Earth, what would be its density and associated dipole measured at the altitude of a U2 aeroplane (25 km), the COBE satellite (900 km), and the 2nd Lagrange point (1.5 million km, the position of the WMAP and PLANCK satellites)? The first problem is solved via Einstein's equations for the electromagnetic field of the Earth. The second problem is solved using the geodesic equations for light-like particles (photons) which are mediators for electro-magnetic radiation. We have determined that a microwave background that ...