Cosmic Discovery: Wave-Expansion Interpretation of the CMB — Cosmic Background, Resonance Field, and the Medium of Light Propagation — Wave-Expansion Cosmology Series, Paper 7 · Discovery 1

This is Paper 7 of the Wave-Expansion Cosmology series, Discovery 1, specifically addressing the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).

Wave-expansion theory rejects the standard cosmological picture of "residual of the last scattering surface." CMB is the cosmic background, the background wave field present at the universe's formation, present everywhere, not radiation propagated from a distance. At the universe's birth, the temperature rose from 0 K to 3000 K and then fell from 3000 K to 2.725 K. This 3000 K infrared radiation propagated, reflected, and refracted repeatedly in the universe, traversing an equivalent distance of 14.304 billion light-years and falling to 2.725 K, reaching equilibrium.

This paper derives the CMB temperature decline curve: T = T0 e^(-Δτ), birth equivalent temperature T0 = 3000 K, today's observed temperature T = 2.725 K, corresponding to Δτ_CMB = 7.004.

This paper resolves the contradiction between "CMB temperature is everywhere the same" and "wave-expansion rate varies with distance." The key is: CMB is not a freely propagating wave but the cosmic background field. At the universe's birth, the temperature was everywhere the same; light propagated, reflected, and refracted repeatedly in the universe, and each direction experienced the same equivalent wave-expansion accumulation.

This paper proposes the universe formation mechanism (latest view): Starting from zero energy, positive and negative energy are generated. The particle cloud has no temperature. Particles directly clump through wave-mediated coupling, simultaneously forming hydrogen atoms and stars. Where concentration is high, stars form, and thermal density is high; 3000 K is only the temperature of the vast spaces where no stars form.

This paper proposes that the universe is a resonance field. The resonance field has existed from the beginning, its temperature dropping as the universe cools. Light propagates on the resonance field; the resonance field is the medium, light is the wave on the medium. Wave expansion determines the constancy of the speed of light. Electromagnetic wave propagation goes through three stages: particle relay → atomic relay → free flight in the resonance field.

This paper proposes that the resonance field simultaneously explains the constancy of the speed of light and lossless propagation. This paper gives the resonance frequency at various epochs: from 310 THz down to 283 GHz. This paper gives the thermal equilibrium mechanism: Stellar heating rate and wave-expansion dissipation rate decay with the same exponent; temperature locks at 2.725 K. CN molecular excitation temperature 2.77 ± 0.06 K agrees with the CMB temperature, independently verifying thermal equilibrium.

This paper proposes energy relativity: Positive energy is like the mountain formed by pumping water; negative energy is like the uniform lowering of the water surface. Both are in the same equilibrium system; the total energy of the void is always zero.

This paper proposes the universe's transition from hazy to clear: The universe was transparent from the beginning, only filled with a particle soup. Only now (within the last 917 million years) has light propagation in the universe become strictly lossless.

This paper proposes the answer to "where are the aliens": The universe became clear 917 million years ago. The emergence of life is confined to within the last 917 million years. Earth may be the earliest planet to give birth to life. It is inevitable that no aliens are found.

This paper proposes cosmic age 14.304 billion years (stellar birth age). Cosmic boundary 14.304 billion light-years. Farthest real galaxy 14.304 billion light-years. Beyond 14.304 billion light-years is the cosmic movie, at most within 15.3 billion light-years.

This paper gives observational evidence supporting wave-expansion theory: High-redshift galaxy anomalous dimming, high-redshift supernova anomalous dimming, cosmic transparency evolution, and CMB temperature measurements all agree with wave-expansion theory.

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