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by hakmem 2230 days ago
The authors have a look at the spectral line database of the NIST and make the surprising finding, that all atomic spectral lines together approximate very well a black body spectrum at a temperature of 9000K.

The authors not yet have an explanation for this conundrum, but also note, that this temperature plays a role in the formation theory of the universe.

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Don't know why you have been down-voted - thanks for the TL;DR.