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Comment author: RichardKennaway 17 October 2015 07:38:48PM 0 points [-]

That heat, we expect, would be dumped into surrounding space as some sort of radiation and so we would see it.

That explains the microwave background!

Comment author: CellBioGuy 17 October 2015 08:50:28PM 2 points [-]

No it doesn't. Photons travel until they hit something in straight lines. The microwave background comes uniformly from all directions behind stars and galaxies.

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