A geeky sidebar on #Wandavision, and the fact that the TV signal from Westview is encoded in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)
I wonder if this is at some level a reference to the fact that some of the CMBR is indeed on old broadcast TV wavelengths. I think it was dear @cgseife who first told me that about 1% of the noise seen as static on old TVs was in fact the long-wavelength tail of the CMBR
A fact which completely fucking blew my mind.
To the extent that there needs to be a reason for Westview to be in New Jersey, (cc @EmpirePodcast) could it be in deference to the fact that it was there, at Bell Labs, that the CMBR was discovered?
(As a source of noise in the microwave wavelengths used for early satellite communications)
Almost certainly not.
But the idea that one of the writing staff, like me, had found a memorable poetry to the idea that the noise between the channels on an old tv was in part *the noise of the Big Bang itself* and delighted in using it as a plot point brings me pleasure.
And conceivably might be true.
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