Non-thermal primeval fireball?

The possible significance of a large cosmic sub-millimeter electromagnetic radiation background is considered. It is shown that in some scalar-tensor cosmological models such an effect could be primeval, that is, the result of processes occurring at an epoch earlier than we now can attempt to compute. The radiation background due to electron pair annihilation in a scalar-tensor model also is considered. It is shown that, while this effect could very substantially increase the far infrared background, it cannot make a spectrum that would be consistent with all the available tentative measurements.Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation.