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- From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
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- Subject: Re: Big Bang Alternates
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:47:10 GMT
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- > Velocity is a redshift-blueshift mechanism. Other mechanisms are
- >redshift-only. Examples are tired light and gravitational redshifts.
- >Several redshift-only mechanisms work very well for alternate cosmologies.
-
- Sorry. I should have said, "absence of any velocity independent
- redshift mechanism which is not grossly ad hoc". To counter Feynman's
- objection to dark-matter mediated tired light, you postulate that
- the matter is "resisting entities individually so small that the
- >energy loss to photons is smooth and continuous, not in discrete collision
- >events with quantum-sized particles."
- You also mention gravitational redshift. If this is the mechanism,
- why does it only work for distant objects, which otherwise appear
- identical to nearby objects?
-
- The big bang is elegant and predictive with few assumptions. Show us
- an alternate theory that makes the same predictions to the same
- accuracy with fewer assumptions. (Yeah, I know, your book will be
- out real soon now.)
-