Bak, Per; Paczuski, Maya - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 348 (2005) C, pp. 277-280
The almost perfect uniformity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, discovered by Penzias and Wilson in 1965 (Astrophys. J. 142 (1965) 419), appears to present clearcut evidence that the universe was uniform and in equilibrium at the decoupling transition when a plasma of protons...