"The evidence2 is available that shows the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is not background at all. It is a local radio fog from interacting Birkeland filaments within the Milky Way. The cold spot confirms that the CMB has no cosmological significance. It is commonsense that one hemisphere will be colder than the other, unless we just happen to be dead-center in the electric current stream of our arm of the Milky Wayan unlikely situation. As for the suggestion of a parallel universe, it is a meaningless juxtaposition of wordssadly a regular feature of modern physics."