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CCC2 Short Program (revised Sept. 2)
Sunday Sept. 7 08:30-12:00 morning excursions 12:30-17:00 afternoon excursions 19:30-20:30 welcome and introductions
Monday Sept. 8 08:30 Opening remarks Panel 1: Reality of cosmic expansion (chaired by Potter) 08:45 Ashmore: Hydrogen cloud separation as direct evidence of the dynamics of the Universe 09:20 Jensen: Supernova 2006gy and Copernicus principle: Modern cosmology meets Goliath 09:55 Van Flandern: The two pillars of the Big Bang fall 10:30 Break 10:50 Lieu: LCDM cosmology: its bright and dark sides 11:25 Lerner: Tolman surface brightness test from z=0.03 to z=5.7 12:00 Hawkins: Search for time dilation in quasar light curves 12:35 Response and discussion 13:05 Lunch Panel 2: Origin of microwave radiation (chaired by Lieu) 14:35 Bligh: Microwave radiation does NOT prove that hot Big Bang theory is correct. 15:10 Haynes: Re-evaluation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) 15:45 Break 16:15 Ashmore (poster): Photon-electron recoil leading to the Hubble constant and CMB 16:30 Response and discussion poster papers 17:00 Dickau (Panel 4): Does Mandelbrot set offer clues to cosmological evolution of form? 17:15 Brynjolfsson (Panel 6): Nucleosynthesis in plasma-redshift cosmology 17:30 Close session
Tuesday Sept. 9 Panel 3: Quasi-stellar objects (chaired by Ratcliffe) 08:30 Fulton: Physical association and periodicity in quasar families 09:05 Arp (live videocon): Nature of extragalactic redshifts from quasar-into-galaxy evolution 09:55 Gallo: Quasar additional intrinsic redshift mechanism ?? 10:30 Break 10:50 Response and discussion Panel 4: Large scale structure (chaired by Gallo) 11:20 Hartnett: Fourier analysis of the large scale spatial distribution of galaxies in the universe 11:55 Schmitz: Evidence survey for top-down vs. bottom-up evolution on various scales 12:30 Ratcliffe: A review of anomalous redshift data 13:05 Lunch 14:35 Response and discussion Panel 5: Methods for selecting alternative cosmologies chaired by Fulton 15:05 Eastman: The observational-inductive framework and implications for cosmology 15:40 Dilworth: Cosmological physics ground rules & how to evaluate cosmologies 16:15 Break 16:45 Van Flandern: Deduction vs. induction for selecting a cosmology 17:20 Response and discussion 17:50 Close session
Wednesday Sept. 10 Panel 6: General alternative cosmologies (chaired by Eastman) 08:30 von Brzeski: Lobachevsky space as model for large scale electromagnetic phenomena 09:05 Singh: Cosmic conundrum solution for cosmological constant, dark matter & dark energy 09:40 Wilson: Eternal contracting universe 10:15 Break 11:05 Vishwakarma: Quasi-steady state cosmology 11:40 Brynjolfsson: Plasma-redshift cosmology: A review 12:15 Press Conference 13:00 Lunch 14:30 Jensen: Finding order in the chaos: looking for a new foothold in our own solar system 15:05 Ghosh: Cosmological redshift in a quasi-static universe 15:40 Mayer: On the geometry of time in physics and cosmology 16:15 Break 16:45 Poliakov: Time is a key to cosmology 17:20 Response and discussion 17:50 Close session 19:30 Banquet
Thursday Sept. 11 Panel 7: Hubble relationship alternatives (chaired by Lerner) 08:30 Roscoe: The conflict between realism and the scalar potential in electrodynamics 09:05 Moret-Bailly: Failure of Hubble's law in supernova SNR1987A 09:40 Masrieliez: The scale expanding cosmos theory 10:15 Break 10:35 Assis: Hubble's cosmology: From finite expanding universe to static endless universe 11:10 Marmet: The dipole force as a redshift mechanism 11:45 Response and discussion 12:15 Lunch Panel 8: Dark matter and dark energy alternatives (chaired by Van Flandern) 13:45 Mannheim: Cosmological constant problem presages paradigm shift in gravity theory? 14:20 Gallo: Ordinary dark matter versus mysterious dark matter in galactic rotation 14:55 Vishwakarma: Does Dark Energy Signal a Wrong Physics? 15:30 Break 16:00 Booth: Machian general relativity: possible solution to the dark energy problem? 16:35 Response and discussion 17:05 General discussion & conclusions 17:35 Close conference
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