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The cosmic microwave radiation was predicted to be a remnant of the big
bang and when it was discovered it was claimed to be the final proof of its validity.
It is said to be the radiation that appeared in the first few moments of creation
along with matter but was trapped because matter was so dense.
After 300,000 years the density of matter decreased to the point where the radiation
broke free and because it was at an equilibrium temperature the photon energies
resembled that of a black body at 3,000K.
Since that time, the expansion of space has supposedly stretched every photon so
that it now appears in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The big bang predictions for the temperature of the radiation that were made before
its discovery were much higher than its actual value and the theory had to be adjusted
to fit with the data. This was easy to do as it only involved claiming that the
radiation broke free when the temperature was 3,000K.
The brightness/distance relationship of stars is less consistent with an expanding
model of space than for a steady state model.
I have read that the intensity of the microwave radiation is different from than
predicted from the big bang but I have not seen any serious discussion about this.
There are features about the radiation that are more consistent with it being a
phenomenon associated with our solar system rather than originating from throughout
the universe.
The shape of the CMR is not really that of a black body
because the slope of the curve at longer wavelengths does not decrease anywhere
near as fast as it should unless it is disguised by plotting against wavenumber
and not wavelength.
Dark energy is predicted to exist in order to explain why the rate of expansion
of the universe apparently accelerated some few billion years after its creation.
No one has any idea what dark energy could be. But just as the big bang theory arose
from the misinterpretation of the red shift of starlight, the notion of dark energy
has arisen from the misinterpretation of the extra dimming of distant supernovae
as explained in FET.
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I have included dark energy along with cosmic microwave radiation because the two
subjects are intimately linked.
Because FET predicts a steady state universe it needs to
find an alternative source of the CMR. Because it is similar
to the radiation from a black body and because photons lose energy as they travel
through space it must be a local effect.
I believe that the microwave radiation comes from the Oort cloud objects that are
predicted to form a complete shell of bodies surrounding the solar system. Extrapolation
of the surface temperatures of the planets with distance from the Sun puts these
objects at just the right temperature to explain the wavelength of the radiation.
Now if the Oort cloud consists of comets etc. then the largest of these would produce
the strongest signal and account for most of the observed curve. But we would also
expect there to be lots of smaller objects as well as dust and therefore these would
be colder than the largest comets because they would have very little gravitational
heating. They would therefore only contribute to the longer wavelength side of the
curve as observed.
Putting the source of the radiation around our solar system would also explain the
observed anisotropy.
It is now obvious that the extra dimming of distant supernovae is due to Oort cloud
objects passing between the observer and distant objects. The amount of light obscured
is insignificant for nearby supernovae but becomes increasingly important as the
perceived size of a distant supernova decreases to that of these bodies.
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