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To: Dante Alighieri

"Wrong; it is. I already gave you a clue: falsification tests. Experiments are not the only way to test theories."

Please describe the falsification tests for the Big Bang.


300 posted on 08/20/2006 10:14:55 AM PDT by webstersII
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To: webstersII

This is probably the most celebrated one:

Near the 40s, there were 2 theories in the scientific arena regarding the origin of the universe. One of the them was the steady-state theory and the Big Bang theory. In 1948, George Gamow predicted that if the Big Bang theory was accurate, there should have been cosmic microwave background radiation, as a sort of afterglow from the expansion. In the 60s, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were doing a series of observations with a new microwave receiver from Bell when they received excess noise. They investigated further and discovered that they had found the elusive CMB.

That's a falsification test for the Big Bang theory.


301 posted on 08/20/2006 11:19:41 AM PDT by Dante Alighieri
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