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What is the relation between the cosmological fluctuations in the microwave background temperature and the velocity of the Milky Way?

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Dear Lucica,

No relation., As large as it is, the Milky Way is local, our own galaxy. The MW background spreds throughout the universe.

David H. Levy


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