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- From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
- Subject: Re: Big Bang Alternates
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:10:52 GMT
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- In <1736.289.uupcb@nitelog.com> bruce.weaver@nitelog.com (Bruce Weaver) writes:
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- >Basically, it is a feedback cycle that acts as a thermostat to maintain
- >the temperature of the Universe at 3 degrees. Like Chip Arp and his
- >statistical associations of QSOs and low redshift galaxies, this idea
- >gored a lot of oxes. It was their computer modeling of the processes
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- Care to comment on the likelihood that this mechanism would yield
- a radiation field uniform to 1 part in 100,000?
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- >If one could make sense of Arp's observations/statistics (mostly, I
- >think, the problem lies in the lack of blue shifts), then these two
- >parts raise doubts about the Big Bang. If Arp were right, then the
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- This sounds a little like saying that creationism would be in pretty
- good shape, if we could just reorder the fossil record and get
- all those pesky radiometric dates to come in under 10,000 years...
- It won't wash. Given the lack of a velocity-independent explanation
- for redshift, the total absence of blueshifts outside the Local
- Group damns any steady-state theory.
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- As for scientific political correctness: at what point does heterodoxy
- become incompetence? The steady state people are pretty close to
- crossing the line, IMHO.
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