On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 18:24:56 -0600, Dan Minette
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, there were steady state universe theories that were very
compatable with red shift being due to relative speed. The problem with
the steady state universe was, at first, how is matter being created
continuously, in violation of all natural laws that we know of?
If matter isn't/wasn't created, where did it come from?
Why don't we see the ramification of this happening?
How are you sure we don't? Alternatively, how do you know we could detect
the ramifications?
The second is when we heard the echos of the big bang, right at the
energy it was supposed to be at. As you see, the website doesn't
attempt to
discuss this.
Do you mean like this?
http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/BB-top-30.asp
2) The microwave “background” makes more sense as the limiting
temperature of space heated by starlight than as the remnant of a fireball.
The expression “the temperature of space” is the title of
chapter 13 of Sir Arthur Eddington’s famous 1926 work, [[4]] Eddington
calculated the minimum temperature any body in space would cool to, given
that it is immersed in the radiation of distant starlight. With no
adjustable parameters, he obtained 3°K (later refined to 2.8°K [[5]]),
essentially the same as the observed, so-called “background”, temperature.
A similar calculation, although with less certain accuracy, applies to the
limiting temperature of intergalactic space because of the radiation of
galaxy light. [[6]] So the intergalactic matter is like a “fog”, and would
therefore provide a simpler explanation for the microwave radiation,
including its blackbody-shaped spectrum.
Such a fog also explains the otherwise troublesome ratio of infrared to
radio intensities of radio galaxies. [[7]] The amount of radiation emitted
by distant galaxies falls with increasing wavelengths, as expected if the
longer wavelengths are scattered by the intergalactic medium. For example,
the brightness ratio of radio galaxies at infrared and radio wavelengths
changes with distance in a way which implies absorption. Basically, this
means that the longer wavelengths are more easily absorbed by material
between the galaxies. But then the microwave radiation (between the two
wavelengths) should be absorbed by that medium too, and has no chance to
reach us from such great distances, or to remain perfectly uniform while
doing so. It must instead result from the radiation of microwaves from the
intergalactic medium. This argument alone implies that the microwaves
could not be coming directly to us from a distance beyond all the
galaxies, and therefore that the Big Bang theory cannot be correct.
None of the predictions of the background temperature based on the Big
Bang were close enough to qualify as successes, the worst being Gamow’s
upward-revised estimate of 50°K made in 1961, just two years before the
actual discovery. Clearly, without a realistic quantitative prediction,
the Big Bang’s hypothetical “fireball” becomes indistinguishable from the
natural minimum temperature of all cold matter in space. But none of the
predictions, which ranged between 5°K and 50°K, matched observations. [[8]
And the Big Bang offers no explanation for the kind of intensity
variations with wavelength seen in radio galaxies.
--
Doug
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