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Originally Posted by iborg
Hi
My understanding is that the CMB is directly and immediately resulting from the Big Bang itself. Not something generated later. Observed later of course, and much altered over time.
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Maybe I don't see it - but why would my

crackpot

idea require the CMB to be generated later? I see it as happening the same as the current model.
We already have a discrepancy between the observable universe and the total universe (however big that is). I'm simply suggesting this discrepancy and the reducing mass of the observable universe as a driver for the accelerated expansion we observe.