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Planck Mission: Cosmology Scam Update

Unread post by orrery » Thu Mar 14, 2013 2:23 pm

Continuing the long tradition of Big Bang Cosmology scam propaganda regarding the microwave radiation from space, the Planck team has scheduled March 21st for a Cosmology conference about the results from Planck.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space ... ck_mission
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Re: Planck Mission: Cosmology Scam Update

Unread post by Metryq » Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:47 pm

ESA scientists conclude: "the Big Bang caused Global Warming—and it is still Mankind's fault!" (Anthropic arguments ensue.)

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Re: Planck Mission: Cosmology Scam Update

Unread post by nick c » Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:39 pm

The Universe is older than previously thought!!!!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eur ... story.html
The hubris continues...
“We’ve uncovered a fundamental truth of the universe,” said George Efstathiou, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge who announced the Planck findings in Paris. “There’s less stuff that we don’t understand by a tiny amount.”
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“What a wonderful triumph of the mathematical approach to describing nature. The precision is breathtaking,” Brian Greene, a Columbia University physicist, said in an email Thursday.

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Re: Planck Mission: Cosmology Scam Update

Unread post by Solar » Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:07 pm

Okay so...

Planck reveals an almost Perfect Universe

Simple but challenging: The Universe according to Plank

Hemispheric Asymmetry and Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background

... Is that it? A bit more clearer images of the same "cold spot", the same asymmetry in temperature, the same 'fossil radiation' story ... and:
"However, it is not possible to merge this very specific anisotropic scenario with the standard model that holds very well on 'local' scales. Therefore, this exercise remains a tantalising demonstration of how attempts to reach a satisfactory description of the Universe at large scales might require us to get more creative in developing plausible extensions of the standard model," he adds.

Cosmologists are now facing an interesting dilemma: on the one hand, the standard model of cosmology is still the best way to describe the CMB data, although it includes elements that still lack solid theoretical understanding such as dark matter, dark energy, and inflation. On the other hand, the anomalies seen by Planck highlight that the model should be at the very least extended, if not radically modified.

"The precise measurements of CMB temperature fluctuations achieved by Planck hint at the presence of gaps in the foundations of our understanding of cosmology," comments Tauber. "The Universe seems to be simpler, but at the same time, also weirder than we ever thought. The anomalies in the CMB are telling us something fundamental: we do not know yet what this is, but we are eager to find out," he concludes. - Planck
How can anyone then say “There’s less stuff that we don’t understand by a tiny amount.” - while simultaneously throwing the entire model into question?
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Re: Planck Mission: Cosmology Scam Update

Unread post by celeste » Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:59 am

Interesting turn of events: The reason they thought these microwaves were "cosmic", was that they seemed to come from every direction equally. No correlation to galactic or ecliptic plane. So, now that they have made up their mind that they are cosmic microwaves, and now start to see asymmetries, it's patch time.
But are they cosmic microwaves? Look at the distribution here:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object ... ctid=51559
and put some local stars on it with this map:
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/wgalchart.gif
Notice for example, Sirius is in a hot zone extending up through Gemini? (Maybe a little break in the red between Sirius and Gemini). Alpha Centauri, cool zone. Ophiuchus,a bit of a warm patch, not as hot as by Sirius. Just get a feel for it, then look at this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... arrows.jpg
The cosmic microwave background has quite a similar distribution to our local clouds. Is this a coincidence?
We've talked about these clouds as being current filaments, in the g-cloud thread. Does this make sense to anyone?

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Re: Planck Mission: Cosmology Scam Update

Unread post by Solar » Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:03 pm

celeste wrote:Does this make sense to anyone?
Yes it makes sense. This is also the point made by G. Verschur:
Verschuur's research asserts that the seeds are not located on the edge of the universe at all. Rather, he says, the so-called seeds are very nearby: They're just previously unmapped clouds of "neutral hydrogen" gas located inside the Milky Way. In other words, astronomers who mistook the "seeds" for objects on the edge of the universe are like someone who looks outdoors through a window and mistakes smudges on the glass for clouds in the sky. – Wired
You will recall that a variety of temps were predicted for this.The different (evolving) temperatures predicted were presented in the film Cosmology Quest at approximately 1:22:00 (1hr 22min). The temps were “rapidly readjusted” from 50 degrees down to three… now:

“The fact that a theory is able to describe an observation does not mean that the observation proves the theory.” – Cosmology Quest

Looks to me that CMB was simply absorbed into the “big bang” theory. From other works that I study these CMB missions have never ‘seen’ the actual mCBR; what they observe will be found to fit the aforementioned pattern, they are STILL observing a temp that is way too hot.
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Re: Planck Mission: Cosmology Scam Update

Unread post by viscount aero » Mon Aug 26, 2013 1:22 am

CMBR is more than likely a local signature. Follow Dr. Gerrit Verschuur, Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Memphis, Tennessee :

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http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Cosmo ... e_999.html

Cosmological Data Affected By An Unexpected Source Of Radiation In Interstellar Space

Dr. Gerrit Verschuur, a pioneer in the science of radio astronomy, has been studying the properties of the Milky Way using interstellar HI for almost 50 years. According to his recent work, it appears that many of the small-scale structures observed by WMAP are correlated with HI.

by Staff Writers
Memphis TN (SPX) Nov 13, 2007

The widely lauded discovery of small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background may be seriously affected by a previously unidentified source of radio emission in our own Milky Way Galaxy. This is the conclusion arrived at by Dr. Gerrit Verschuur, Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Memphis. His work will be published in the December 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
Verschuur was studying data from the first ever all-sky survey of interstellar neutral hydrogen (HI) when he noticed intriguing similarities to the structure observed by the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) spacecraft.

WMAP was designed to detect faint variations in the cosmic microwave background, a pervasive signal left over from the Big Bang itself. This anisotropy may represent the first step in the structural evolution of the universe, a middle ground between the ultra-smooth cosmic microwave background and the clusters of galaxies that exist today.

The anisotropy detected with WMAP confirms a discovery made a decade earlier by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) spacecraft. As a result, the COBE scientists won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.

However, if even a small fraction of the anisotropy can be associated with structure in the Milky Way, the cosmological interpretations of the data could be called into question.

Verschuur, a pioneer in the science of radio astronomy, has been studying the properties of the Milky Way using interstellar HI for almost 50 years. According to his recent work, it appears that many of the small-scale structures observed by WMAP are correlated with HI.

To describe Verschuur's discovery as controversial would be an understatement. "I realize that my results may not be readily accepted by traditional cosmologists," Verschuur says, "but I hope they will at least consider the possibility that their data may have been compromised by what appears to be a previously unidentified source of weak radio emission originating from our own Galaxy."

Verschuur points out that the WMAP researchers went to enormous lengths to remove contributions from known physical processes occurring in the Milky Way, but the WMAP signals associated with the HI may result from a previously unidentified process. "No one could have foreseen the existence of this newly discovered relationship," Verschuur continues. "After all, a comprehensive HI survey for the northern sky was only completed in 1997 and the all-sky version became widely available even more recently, in 2005."

It will be challenging for cosmologists to prove that the weak radio signals detected by WMAP are not originating from the Milky Way. Verschuur points out that a more fruitful approach may be to determine whether or not something new can be learned about the physics of interstellar HI structure by considering examples of the close associations between HI and the anisotropy observed by WMAP.

As a student of interstellar HI, Verschuur is excited by his new discovery. "I now treat the WMAP peaks as markers that indicate where to focus my efforts," he says.

Further study of the relationships between HI and small-scale structure observed by WMAP will surely reveal a host of new information about the physics and dynamics of our own Milky Way Galaxy.

The new discovery, if confirmed, means that the structure superimposed on the cosmic microwave background is produced in the Milky Way and does not have a cosmic origin. Thus the cosmic microwave background signal from the early universe may be smoother than anyone expected, which raises new questions as to how structure ever emerged in the universe to create galaxies.

Verschuur holds out the hope that bright young theorists will tackle this problem and that some members of a new generation of radio astronomers will focus on the Milky Way to study interstellar HI using the WMAP signals to target their research.

The first inkling that a Milky Way component was still present in the WMAP all-sky image came while Verschuur was preparing illustrations for his new book on radio astronomy, The Invisible Universe, published in early 2007. He had available a color print of the all-sky image of the WMAP data and another of the HI data (integrated over all velocities frpm 450 to 400 km/s) to the same scale.

He couldn't hellp noticing intriguing similarities between structures in the two maps. That seemed to merit a closer look. At the time he had been working with the HI data as part of an unrelated project and had available HI maps at dozens of velocities that could quickly compared to details in the WMAP structure. Note that due to motion of the gas in space, the HI emission is observed over a wide range of velocities introduced by the Doppler effect, which shifts the observed frequency of the HI emission by slight amounts.

The WMAP data were subsequently made available to him by Wayne Landsman and Gary Hinshaw of the WMAP team based at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

Verschuur has produced over 1,000 maps of HI structure in small areas of sky for comparison with the WMAP data. "These comparisons reveal hundreds of close associations between HI and WMAP features and it will take years to fully report this work. This field is wide open for others to get involved.

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