Henri Wilson wrote:

If I take a copper sphere into deep space, what be its final temperature?
There isn't much out there but it still has a temperature.

My guess is about 3K.

So why all this CMBR/BB crap?


Yeah... a little less that 3K now, but in the past it was higher.

See Frequently Asked Questions in Cosmology, Henri
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html

Some Scientifically Inaccurate Claims Concerning Cosmology and Relativity
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/RelWWW/wrong.html
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/Stolmar_Errors.html