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 new alternative to the standard cosmological model.
In the end, with new findings the uniformity of the CMB is in doubt and the
current model is probably not as accurate as most would think.
Jones
H LV wrote:
The Riddle of the Redshift: The Universe We Don't Understand .A talk given by
Margaret Burbidge in 2001 ( She worked with Fred Hoyle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eYbpykJVD8
Harry
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:32 PM H LV <[email protected]> wrote:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/remembering-big-bang-basher-fred-hoyle/
quote
<<Hoyle also seemed obsessed with how close he had come to discovering the
cosmic microwave background. It was 1963, and during an astronomy conference
Hoyle fell into a conversation with Robert Dicke, a physicist who was planning
to search for the cosmic microwaves predicted by the big bang model. Dicke told
Hoyle that he expected the microwaves to be about 20 degrees above absolute
zero, which is what most theorists were predicting. Hoyle then told Dicke that
in 1941 the Canadian radio astronomer Andrew McCullough had found interstellar
gas radiating microwaves at three degrees, not 20. >>
As we all know a CMB was found in 1965 but I was not aware that the early Big
Bang theorists predicted a higher temperature for the CMB. I wonder how this
discrepancy was explained by the BB theorists.
Harry
