| Cut the sarcasm because it's going to backfire. That there are galaxies that appear more frequently at 500 million light-years from each other, is the raw fact. I've read the papers that say that raw fact is proof of big bang LCDM, but that's not actually true. It's not "if and only if" proof, because those papers presuppose the big bang is true and squish the "500 million light-years" observation into their model. They don't consider the possibility of an eternal, eternally evolving universe where 500 million light-years might be an interesting peak of a distribution coming from some interaction of charge and gravity at large scales. Something like chemistry, but at galactic scales. The cosmic background radiation is likewise not "if and only if" proof of the big bang model. In fact, non-expansionary, non-big-bang models predicted a cosmic temperature around 3K 50 years before Penzias and Wilson. For some reason, this history gets little coverage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background#Ti....
There's also a curious coincidence that 2.7K is related to 1/3 electron energy density when in equilibrium with its surroundings.
https://twitter.com/sahil5d/status/1413375131078914055
^ not a fact, just speculation. k is Coulomb's constant. F=kqq/r^2. The plot of all known redshift data fits photon hubbling (continuous photon decay) (tired light) more accurately than galactic recession.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HI61-pDIzzSItw48K0ga... I could spend lots of time whacking moles, but instead I'm fixing the problem at the root, and that problem is interpreting the cosmological redshift as galactic recession. The reason the academic establishment 100 years ago claimed the redshift was the Doppler effect of galaxies receding, was that it was the only "generally accepted mechanism" at the time. That bug in the code has been covered up with patches and patches of convoluted logic for 100 years. Like "space expanded faster than the speed of light". How people swallowed that one, I'll never know. Gotta fix the bug at the root. Then talk about the rest like dark matter, dark energy, baryon acoustic oscillations. |