Yes. But I am beginning to doubt the supposed solid proof that the universe is really expanding. Even Hoyle believed the expansion to be an essential feature of the universe. This 2015 summary of seven tests of cosmological expansion is hardly ringing endorsement. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.01487.pdf In fact only 2 of the 7 tests strongly favour expansion.
Harry On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 9:23 AM Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Harry, > > Are you familiar with the "big bounce" arguments? > > https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200117-what-if-the-universe-has-no-end > > This emerging hypothesis seems to address some of the problems with Hoyle, > Gold etc. which seem to falter due to CMB uniformity - and possibly > represents the best new alternative to the standard cosmological model. > > In the end, with new findings the uniformity of the CMB is in doubt and > the current model is probably not as accurate as most would think. > > Jones > > > H LV wrote: > > 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 > >
