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Panel 1 - Reality of Cosmic Expansion

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Authors Affiliation Title Abstract
Tom Van Flandern Meta Research, Sequim WA, USA The Two Pillars of the Big Bang Fall The Big Bang theory has two pillars: redshift caused by velocity --> expanding universe; microwave radiation --> fireball remnant. But supernova data corrected for Malmquist bias shows no "time dilation", so cosmological redshift cannot be caused by velocity. And the absence of the S-Z effect in ~ half of galaxy clusters means microwave radiation must be foreground, not background.
Richard Lieu Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville AL, USA The key milestone achievements of LCDM cosmology will be summarized with the intention of critically assessing whether they can be defended against the prolific number of unverified or unverifiable assumptions made.  Important new observations that can clinch the model with current technology will be described. The success of LCDM cosmology lies with its ability to explain by one mathematically sophisticated model the scale dependence of the CMB anisotropy, structure formation, light element abundance, and the age of the Universe. There are however at least six independent assumptions about space, time, matter, and energy that do not correspond to our everyday experience and cannot be verified in the laboratory within the foreseeable future. Examples are the Hubble expansion and the Planck time. There are also many unexplained phenomena, labeled as 'small details', such as the missing 50% of the baryons at low redshift, the anomalies of cluster X-ray spectra, the dwarf galaxy rotation curves and the abundance of satellites around the Local Group spirals. A number of future observations will play a decisive role on the fate and evolution of LCDM. These include weak lensing surveys, strong lensing time delay and Einstein ring distortion measurements, evidence for the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from the Planck mission, soft X-ray detection of the warm-hot intergalactic medium, and a catalog of the WMAP5 acoustic peaks.
Lyndon Ashmore Dubai College, Dubai, UAE Hydrogen cloud separation as direct evidence of the dynamics of the Universe The average separation of Hydrogen clouds is determined as a function of time in order to give direct evidence to distinguish between static and expanding models of the Universe.
Eric Lerner, Renato Falomo, Riccardo Scarpa

Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, USA; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, ITALY; Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, SPAIN

Tolman surface brightness test from z=0.03 to z=5.7 We perform the Tolman surface-brightness test for the expansion of the universe using a large UV dataset of disk galaxies in a wide range of redshifts (from 0.03 to 5.7). We compared the data  to  the predictions of the concordance-cosmology, expanding-universe model  and to those of a simple, Euclidean non-expanding model where the distance is given by d=cz/H0.  The data is completely inconsistent  at a 12 sigmalevel with the LCDM expanding universe model, using the widely-accepted predicted evolution of galaxy size (R= r0/ H (z)). . By contrast, the data are consistent at a 7 % level with the prediction of the non-expanding model.
Amitabha Ghosh Indian Nat'l Science Academy, West Bengal, INDIA Cosmological Redshift in a Quasistatic Universe The observed cosmological redshift is a result of a dynamic gravitational interaction of photons with the matter in the universe which is quasistatic, i.e. no universal expansion. The dynamic gravitation that is responsible for the cosmological redshift also produces a number of other  effects in the solar system which are verified quantitatively through actual observations. No free adjustable parameters are involved.
Jerry W. Jensen Meta Research, Thatcher UT, USA Supernova 2006gy and the Copernicus Principle: Modern Cosmology Meets Goliath By applying rational interpretations of the Copernicus principle and acknowledging that selection effects known broadly as Malmquist bias should favor the observation of more luminous events with increasing distance, we demonstrate that reasonable interpretations of supernova light-curves includes the possibility that there is no evidence of time dilation in the supernova events we observe at cosmological distances.
Terence Witt Florida Inst. of Technology, FL, USA Surface brightness loss profile of distant celestial objects inconsistent with universal expansion Surface brightness loss of distant celestial objects is far greater than the energy loss associated with their cosmological redshift, an observation that is currently thought to support the Standard Model.  In this paper, the author proposes an alternate, easily quantifiable mechanism for this loss that is entirely independent of the universal expansion to which it is currently attributed.
       

Author Index
Panel 1 - Reality of Cosmic Expansion
Panel 2 - Origin of Microwave Radiation
Panel 3 - Large Scale Structure
Panel 4 - Quasi-Stellar Objects
Panel 5 - Methods for Selecting Alternative Cosmologies
Panel 6 - General Alternative Cosmologies
Panel 7 - Hubble Relationship Alternatives
Panel 8 - Dark Matter and Dark Energy Alternatives

 

 

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