1.   A related problem is the evenness of the microwave background.

2.   As yet, though, the best measurements of the microwave background show none of the tell-tale Marks that such flaws would leave.

3.   New studies will search for the tiniest blips in the microwave background.

4.   That means they would already be exerting their influence by the time the microwave background was born.

5.   But the microwave background is creating some fresh puzzlement for scientists as they prepare for the space mission.

6.   Observations of the microwave background by new satellites should settle the issue and tell us if we indeed live in a universe that has no boundaries.

7.   So important is the microwave background for cosmology that new experiments beyond MAP are being planned.

8.   The same problem will afflict the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation of the big bang fireball.

9.   The ripples in the microwave background are thought to be the legacy of that early quantum fuzziness.

10.   The ripples in the microwave background had been predicted.