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From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Bang! or not?
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 11:49:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 11:49:04 1985
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Does anybody know the current status of the Big Bang vs Steady State
controversy? I know that as of a few years ago, most research took the
big bang as an operational theory, but a lot of researchers didn't.

I left off at the point that people were discussing the possibility
that the red-shift observed in the spectra from distant objects may not
be due to doppler effects, but from the cumulative gravitational effect
on photons from the billions and billions of atoms they come close to
during the trip. (Also that the massive red-shift observed from quasars
may be caused when the photons climb out of a massive gravity well.)

[My wife and I have a mixed marriage - I'm for steady state and she,
er... ]

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