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- From: buell@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Jim Buell)
- Subject: Re: The Big Bang Never Happened
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:57:11 GMT
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- metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes:
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- >ethan@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Ethan T. Vishniac) writes:
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- >> Just thought I'd point out that shock waves that radiate efficiently ...
- >> are unstable on time scales comparable to the sound travel time ...
- >> and produce persistent density fluctuations of order unity. Also, gas at
- >> 3 K does not radiate like a blackbody unless it is optically thick.
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- > Ethan, I did not describe the "local superbubble" origin for the
- >microwave radiation in sufficient detail for critiqing -- that was not the
- >purpose of the message. But what I had in mind was a roughly spherical
- >hole blown in the local interstellar medium (as observed). Then the
- >portion of that medium that has already reached thermal equilibrium would
- >radiate at 3 degrees Kelvin. That radiation would be rather isotropic when
- >observed from the inside of the bubble, since the radiation density depends
- >hardly at all on the details of the shape of the bubble because it is
- >coming from the optically thick interstellar medium beyond it. -|Tom|-
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- How thick is your ISM? Does its density eventually drop off somewhere?
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- >--
- >Tom Van Flandern / Washington, DC / metares@well.sf.ca.us
- >Meta Research was founded to foster research into ideas not otherwise
- >supported because they conflict with mainstream theories in Astronomy.
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- Jim Buell
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