Editing Cosmic microwave background (section)

==In popular culture==
* In the ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' TV series (2009–2011), an [[Ancient (Stargate)|ancient]] spaceship, ''Destiny'', was built to study patterns in the CMBR which is a sentient message left over from the beginning of time.<ref>{{cite AV media | date=November 10, 2010 | title=Stargate Universe - Robert Carlyle talks about background radiation and Destiny's mission | type=Video | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID6QSX9CAsI | access-date=2023-02-28 | publisher=YouTube }}</ref>
* In ''[[Wheelers (novel)|Wheelers]]'', a novel (2000) by [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]] & [[Jack Cohen (biologist)|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.<ref>{{cite book |title=Wheelers |url=https://archive.org/details/wheelers0000stew/page/494/mode/2up?q=%22age+of+the+universe%22}}</ref>
* In ''[[The Three-Body Problem (novel)|The Three-Body Problem]]'', a 2008 novel by [[Liu Cixin]], a probe from an alien civilization compromises instruments monitoring the CMBR in order to deceive a character into believing the civilization has the power to manipulate the CMBR itself.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liu |first=Cixin |date=2014-09-23 |title=The Three-Body Problem: "The Universe Flickers" |url=https://www.tor.com/2014/09/23/the-three-body-problem-the-universe-flickers/ |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Tor.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
* The 2017 issue of the [[Banknotes of the Swiss franc#Ninth series|Swiss 20 francs bill]] lists several astronomical objects with their distances – the CMB is mentioned with 430 · 10<sup>15</sup> [[light-second]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Astronomy in your wallet - NCCR PlanetS |url=https://nccr-planets.ch/blog/2017/12/07/astronomy-in-your-wallet/ |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=nccr-planets.ch |language=en-US}}</ref>
* In the 2021 Marvel series ''[[WandaVision]]'', a mysterious television broadcast is discovered within the Cosmic Microwave Background.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-03 |title=WandaVision's 'cosmic microwave background radiation' is real, actually |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/wandavision-cosmic-microwave-background-radiation-science-real-marvel-tv |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=SYFY Official Site |language=en-US}}</ref>