A new picture of the early universe; Microwave Imager Probes Universe "First Light" to Answer...

Royal astronomical Society and the National Science Foundation ^ | 05.23.02 | University of Manchester, UK;; and the NSF

[callisto]

Any opinions?

[ThinkPlease]

Pretty wicked stuff. Can't wait to see the journal article.

[ThinkPlease]

Here are the unrefereed journal articles:

The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background to l = 3500: Deep Field Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

A Fast Gridded Method for the Estimation of the Power Spectrum of the CMB from Interferometer Data with Application to the Cosmic Background Imager

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in CMB-calibrated theories applied to the Cosmic Background Imager anisotropy power at l > 2000

Cosmological Parameters from Cosmic Background Imager Observations and Comparisons with BOOMERANG, DASI, and MAXIMA

The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background to l = 3500: Mosaic Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

Happy reading!

[callisto]

Some luchtime reading..it's perfect. Thank you!

[medved]

Physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife have released the first results of new high-precision observations of the relic radiation from the Big Bang...

I usually stop reading right about there. There wasn't any big bang.

non-big-bang links...

• Wal Thornhill home page
• Electric Universe
• Tony Peratt, Los Alamos; plasma cosmology etc.
• Don Scott's Version of Electric Sun Theory
• DragonScience: Arp, Demise of Big Bang etc.

[iceskater]

bump for later

[Free the USA]

Check the Bump List folders for articles related to and descriptions of the above topic(s) or for other topics of interest.

[VadeRetro]

I usually stop reading right about there. [Three quarters of the way through the first sentence of the article.] There wasn't any big bang.

The rest of your life should teach you very little.

[RightWhale]

Good, you got both articles together.

Alan Guth's book "The Inflationary Universe" explains the necessity for "flatness" fairly clearly. If this universe weren't nearly perfectly flat, we wouldn't be here. It might be that nothing would be here.

[PatrickHenry]

Those who find medved's essays and links useful will also be delighted with these:

TIME CUBE .
The Earth is Not Moving!.
Earth Orbits? Moon Landings? A Fraud! .
Flat Earth Society Homepage! .
Christian Answers Network.
Creationists' Cartoons .
Institute for Creation Research.
The Current State of Creation Astronomy.
Answers In Genesis .
THE MOON: A Propaganda Hoax .
CRANK DOT NET.

[Daniel_in_Babylon]

Very fascinating. When considering all the wonders of this universe and all the unknowns concerning its origin, I never fail to remind myself of the bottom line - "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

[PatrickHenry]

Ping to the whole list.

[The universe is flat; so is my girlfriend. Coincidence?]

[Lurking Libertarian]

Very fascinating. When considering all the wonders of this universe and all the unknowns concerning its origin, I never fail to remind myself of the bottom line - "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

As a theistic evolutionist, I agree with you that God created the heavens and the earth, and that that is the "bottom line." Unlike some others, though, I don't think God wants us to stop there; he gave us brains for a reason. I am fascinated by studies such as this, which give us a glimpse into how God created the heavens and the earth.

[Lurking Libertarian]

The universe is flat; so is my girlfriend.

For your sake, I hope she doesn't lurk here. (I'll bet that, when she's around, you describe her as "willowy.")

[PatrickHenry]

I'll bet that, when she's around, you describe her as "willowy."

The correct term, consistent with our understanding of the universe, is "cosmic."

[Daniel_in_Babylon]

As a "six day" creationist, I agree that we should never stop investigating Christ's incredible universe. However, as fascinating as studies such as this are, I believe the Scriptures give us a much more accurate answer as to how He did it. "And God said... and it was so."

[Scully]

If she ever finds out, you're toast. A very risky comment even for a "Uranian".

[PatrickHenry]

I'm hoping she can take a joke. Even from a jerk. We shall see. If you notice that I'm spending the late night hours on FR, then you'll know.

[Physicist]

I believe the Scriptures give us a much more accurate answer as to how He did it. "And God said... and it was so."

But don't you find that a little, well, sketchy? Presumably He could have decreed a different universe, in which case, His exact decree would have been worded differently.

So therefore you're necessarily hiding a great deal of verbiage in those ellipses. Since the book of Nature is far longer than the book of Genesis, He must have given us an abridged version. (I'm agnostic on this issue of whether that was to save papyrus or our attention spans.) So if we want to know what he really said, we have to read the book of Nature to find out. But then, there's really no point in opening the cover if we aren't prepared to accept what we read there.