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In reply to the discussion: Does the Big Bang breakthrough offer proof of God? [View all]idendoit
(505 posts)The microwave background makes more sense as the limiting temperature of space heated by starlight than as the remnant of a fireball.The expression the temperature of space is the title of chapter 13 of Sir Arthur Eddingtons famous 1926 work, Eddington calculated the minimum temperature any body in space would cool to, given that it is immersed in the radiation of distant starlight. With no adjustable parameters, he obtained 3°K (later refined to 2.8°K), essentially the same as the observed, so-called background, temperature. (Findlay-Freundlich 1954)
The average luminosity of quasars must decrease with time in just the right way so that their average apparent brightness is the same at all redshifts, which is exceedingly unlikely. According to the Big Bang theory, a quasar at a redshift of 1 is roughly ten times as far away as one at a redshift of 0.1. (The redshift-distance relation is not quite linear, but this is a fair approximation.) If the two quasars were intrinsically similar, the high redshift one would be about 100 times fainter because of the inverse square law. But it is, on average, of comparable apparent brightness. This must be explained as quasars evolving their intrinsic properties so that they get smaller and fainter as the universe evolves. That way, the quasar at redshift 1 can be intrinsically 100 times brighter than the one at 0.1, explaining why they appear (on average) to be comparably bright. It isnt as if the Big Bang has a reason why quasars should evolve in just this magical way. But that is required to explain the observations using the Big Bang interpretation of the redshift of quasars as a measure of cosmological distance. (T. Von Flandren 1992, H.C. Arp 1998)
The Big Bang violates the first law of thermodynamics, that energy cannot be either created or destroyed, by requiring that new space filled with zero-point energy be continually created between the galaxies. (B.R. Bligh, 2000)
There's plenty more where that came from at metaresearch.org. You need to reread my response about the inability to prove science or God.