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From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: background radiation
Message-ID: <322@prometheus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 03:07:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 03:07:01 1986
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In article <1411@utastro.UUCP> ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac) writes:
>The statement that the microwave background has a cosmic origin is
>based not on "perfect isotropy" but only the fact that the upper limits
>on anisotropy are so low. ..  .  if one tries to interpret that anisotropy
>as intrinsic to the background one has the difficulty of explaining why
>higher order anisotropies have upper limits around a few times 10^-5.

>> > This isn't physics, folks; it's religion.

>The hypothesis of a hot big bang, with the microwave background as remnant
>radiation has the advantage of being consistent with known physics ....
>These predictions have been confirmed by subsequent experiment.
>How is this not physics?   

It is physics depending on which direction your facing. 

It leaves one heck of a big hole in space time.  Where?   Oh where?
.. did it all come from.  Conservation Laws seem like they could be
forever.     Physics can always chase down the energy balance,  but 
here..  .  it begins to be ignored and that takes faith.  

Physics works so well in the here and now.  The "here and now" may
be the information image of other distant and ancient events.  But
that very instant of creation and then what.  Still, that microwave 
echo IS real.   So, I suppose we can keep this out of sci.bizzare.
                              :-)

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