The Riddle of the Redshift: The Universe We Don't Understand . A talk given by Margaret Burbidge in 2001 ( She worked with Fred Hoyle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eYbpykJVD8 Harry On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:32 PM H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/remembering-big-bang-basher-fred-hoyle/ > > quote > <<Hoyle also seemed obsessed with how close he had come to discovering the > cosmic microwave background. It was 1963, and during an astronomy > conference Hoyle fell into a conversation with Robert Dicke, a physicist > who was planning to search for the cosmic microwaves predicted by the big > bang model. Dicke told Hoyle that he expected the microwaves to be about 20 > degrees above absolute zero, which is what most theorists were predicting. > Hoyle then told Dicke that in 1941 the Canadian radio astronomer Andrew > McCullough had found interstellar gas radiating microwaves at three > degrees, not 20. >> > > As we all know a CMB was found in 1965 but I was not aware that the early > Big Bang theorists predicted a higher temperature for the CMB. I wonder how > this discrepancy was explained by the BB theorists. > > Harry >
