Expansion of our universe can be considered as an adiabatic process for the photons of the microwave background radiation.Wavelength of photons grows linearly with the radius of the Universe (regarded a perfect sphere) .
Find the number of degrees of freedom of the photon gas (regarded ideal)
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λ h c is the energy of an individual photon.This energy is also proportional to T ,the temperature(by kinetic theory)
T α R 1 R is the radius
t α V 3 1 1
This gives us γ is 3 4
and then i i + 2 is γ
i = 6