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If the microwave blackbody radiation is both cosmological and isotropic, it will only be isotropic to an observer who is at rest in the rest frame of distant matter which last scattered the radiation. In this article an estimate is made of the velocity of the Sun relative to distant matter, from which a prediction can be made of the anisotropy to be expected in the microwave radiation. It will soon be possible to compare this prediction with experimental results.
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STEWART, J., SCIAMA, D. Peculiar Velocity of the Sun and its Relation to the Cosmic Microwave Background. Nature 216, 748–753 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216748a0
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