Harry, "are there any non-big bang theories which predict the observed 2.7K cosmic background radiation?
Many. You mention the fringes of one theory, which is just now emerging, in your second post. To the contrary of what they state in that piece, there is adequate if not convincing reason to believe that the findings (which are not new, but from the 2001/2002 WMAP survey) reflect a definite physical connection between our local astronomical neighborhood (Virgo supercluster) and the universe at large by way of interstellar protons. Halton Arp, who Frank refers to, has suggested several other explanations. Many of these intertwine at some level. All are incomplete, but so is the connection to a big bang. The fit there is fairly poor, actually, if you look at the actual numbers. My favorite part of the expanded explanation, which Frank will like, is that CMB radiation is a relic of current and ongoing, not past, beta-aether interaction with interstellar hydrogen. It is NOT an ancient relic of anything, but instead it is a pointer of where to look for ZPE, not only in "local" cosmology (if our supercluster can be considered local) but in the very-local environment of earth (since ZPE is also dependent on of an aether and probably is active at the same frequencies here as "out there"). Where is that you ask? As I have suggested several times in the past, a 21 cm wavelength and 1420 Mhz would be a good place to start, if CMB is indeed somehow related to a "particulate" of aether in the vicinity of our solar system. If you are into Fourier transforms and power laws, then this frequency may point to another more active frequency locally. Jones
