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{{Infobox article
| title       = “Wrinkles In Time” & Critical Thinking
| author      = [[Nick Percival]]
| publication = ''Beyond Mainstream''
| date        = 2020-02-08
| domain      = Physics
| topics      = Big Bang, cosmic microwave background
| url         = https://beyondmainstream.org/wrinkles-in-time-critical-thinking/
| archive_url = https://web.archive.org/web/20260416010415/https://beyondmainstream.org/wrinkles-in-time-critical-thinking/
| retrieved   = 2026-07-23
}}

'''"&lsquo;Wrinkles In Time&rsquo; &amp; Critical Thinking"''' is an article by [[Nick Percival]] published on 8 February 2020 on ''Beyond Mainstream'', examining George Smoot's search for structure in the cosmic background radiation.

Percival sets out the problem Smoot faced: the radiation fits a blackbody pattern and is extremely uniform in every direction, which sits well with the Big Bang but leaves unexplained how a highly structured universe of galaxies and superclusters could develop from a uniform beginning. Working strictly from what Smoot himself writes, Percival examines the reasoning and the mindset behind the search for the &ldquo;wrinkles&rdquo; that were expected to supply the missing structure.

'''[https://beyondmainstream.org/wrinkles-in-time-critical-thinking/ Read the full article at ''Beyond Mainstream'' &rarr;]'''

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