Post by glactus on Apr 1, 2008 21:46:42 GMT
It’s well-known that “Big Bang” was a derogatory name given to the cosmological theory of the expanding universe. However, every once in awhile, a new idea comes out which claims to contradict the Big Bang Theory.
The latest comes from researchers Robert K. Soberman and Maurice Dubin who say they know what dark matter is comprised of, and their new ideas provide a better explanation for the CMB, as well as the galactic red shift, two observations that currently support the Big Bang Theory.
Soberman and Dubin believe dark matter is actually made of cosmic meteoroids — clumps of hydrogen and helium atoms, which they call “cosmoids.” The two researchers say cosmoids were found in a new evaluation of data detected by Pioneer 10 & 11.
This dark and fragile matter exists in the “near absolute zero cold and almost forceless space between galaxies from material expelled in stellar winds. Little, if any radiation is emitted at that temperature, hence its invisibility,” say Soberman and Dubin in a paper they released on March 25, 2008.
The cosmoid proposal also explains the galactic redshift. Cosmoids absorb and re-emit light from distant galaxies, and that should redshift the light in a way that is subtly different from a Doppler redshift generated by an expanding universe. They say that the subtle difference should be relatively easy to spot with a few observations.
While this new theory is sure to raise more than just a few eyebrows, it demonstrates what’s great about science. All theories — whether long-standing mainstays of current scientific understanding or new, upstart ideas – will undergo constant scrutiny and testing.
It will be interesting to see what Soberman and Dubin’s tests reveal.
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Original News Sources: ArXiv Blog, and ArXiv, filed under: Astronomy
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