Re: [Vo]:The temperature of the CMB

2020-08-28 Thread Jones Beene
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

RE: [Vo]:The temperature of the CMB

2020-08-28 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
The link to the report about Houle includes: n 1953 Hoyle's investigations of how stars generate heavy elements led him to predict the existence of a previously unknown state of the isotope carbon 12. I assume the writer and Houle meant an isomeric state os C-12. Zny such states were

Re: [Vo]:The temperature of the CMB

2020-08-28 Thread H LV
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.