[Sopater]

Interesting... These guys must not be scientists either since they reject the status quo. (sarc)

[Publius6961]

What's to question?
"First there was nothing; then it exploded".

Makes sense to me.

[Publius6961]

A handful of researchers posit an alternative theory of origin — the universe has no beginning

*snicker*
... and no end.

Sounds positively biblical!

[HaveHadEnough]

Alternative models also seek to account for the C[osmic] M[icrowave] B[ackground] R[adiation] . . .

This, I want to see.

[RightWhale]

Burbidge Quixote keeps trying, but the present model will not shift to a different basis unless it provides a real advantage. There will be no dislocation such as with the Theory of Relativity.

[dirtboy]

Arp, who for almost 30 years worked at the Mount Palomar and Mount Wilson Observatories in California, has raised eyebrows by suggesting that quasars (extremely energetic astronomical objects) are not the super-distant bodies they are generally taken to be, but are in fact ejecta from the centers of active galaxies. Images he took while at the observatories, he contends, show high-redshift quasars physically connected to low-redshift galaxies — an impossibility if redshift is an accurate measure of distance.

I have questioned myself for some time the assumption that increasing redshift equals increasing distance from Earth. Almost all of modern astronomy is based on that assumptin - what if it is wrong and redshifts can be caused by other factors, such as gravitation that is not expected?

[Bellflower]

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