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::I think the first thing is that the 'figures' section should explain what each figure has to do with plasma cosmology; I think the only entries that do this right now are Lerner (who happens to be a friend of mine), Alfven, and Peratt. Once it's been clarified what the relationship with the subject, we can talk about who belongs there. I think that it confuses things unnecessarily to include people, and from Ionized's comments Born and Buneman fit in this category, who are neither proponents of plasma cosmology or people who made a direct contribution to it; the article ought at least to make this distinction. I think as thing stands this list looks like a very dubious attempt to attach big names to the theory and consequently makes the article less credible. I think if no-one more knowledgable comes forward to sort this out I will eventually try to separate the list into two categories along these lines. -[[User:Rafaelgr|Rafaelgr]] 02:33, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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I've been following this topic closely since Lerner published "The Big Bang Never Happened" in 1990 (with a title like that, who am I to leave it on the library shelf unread?!) and monitoring this and related pages for a while.
This is not a plug, just a heads up - I've just bought the DVD of the newly released Universe film by Randall Meyers from http://www.universe-film.com/ which nicely summarises much of the dissenting opinion from within cosmology and astrophysics, eg. Peratt, Lerner, Alfven, Arp, Hoyle, Assis, Narlikar, Pecker, et al.
Whilst I'm not necessarily buying all of the viewpoints expressed, I found a couple of particularly interesting points that arise in the film.
One is Lerner's concise explanation in under 2 minutes of how the CMB temperature and smoothness can be explained as the absorption and reemission of radiation by dust as IR, and how that explanation predicts a more rapid distance-related decline of galaxy emission in the radio spectrum compared with IR (that is, at increasing distances, galaxies appear to emit less radio while their IR emission is held constant). This is the same effect as trying to see distant on-coming car headlights in a fog.
Another is the photographic and other data of Arp, brilliantly portrayed and jaw-dropping when seen in moving pictures, that shows the consistent relationship between quasar fields and nearby galaxies, in particular the decreasing redshift of the quasars with increasing distance from the associated galaxy. Part of this sequence was the brightness/redshift chart for galaxies, which shows the strong relationship that Hubble deduced his distance law from, but the same chart for quasars shows NO SUCH RELATION. We are forced to conclude that there is a non-distance component to quasar redshift, but it seems nobody wants to know.
Not really wanting to add fuel to fire here, but this whole issue seems to come down to dogmatism and a refusal to look down Galileo's telescope. If data do not fit our theory, then it is our duty to question everything, including all assumptions, until they do. Inventing ever more exotic epicycles with no supporting observational data just straps everyone to the hospital bed.
Cheers, [[User:Jonathanischoice|Jonathan ]] 2004.07.30 10.52 NZST
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