| Authors |
Affiliation |
Title |
Abstract |
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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. |
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