Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and how it relates to Big Bang Theory
Sven Gelbhaar
sven.gelbhaar@gmail.com
08/31/2007
"One repays a teacher baldy if one remains only a pupil. And why, then, should
you not pluck at my laurels?”
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke ZarathustraEver since Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson discovered Cosmic Microwave
Background Radiation in 1964(¹) the public has been led to believe that this
somehow supported the Big Bang Theory in proving that there had been an
explosion of at least microwave radiation at, for arguments sake, the start
of time. This, however, is demonstratively false.
Let’s start with what we think we know. Big Bang Theory states that 13.7 ±
0.2 billion years ago the universe was amassed at one immeasurably small point
in space and exploded outwards (²). This premise can be (arguably) verified by
the redshift (Doppler) effect experienced when observing distant stars. It
goes on to posit that at the point in time when the Big Bang took place, the
nuclear explosion that caused the sundry galaxies that now exist to be
projected from this one point in space (hereon out referred to as the Genesis
Point) also emitted vast quantities of microwave radiation. Here is where it
gets hazy: It then claims that the microwave radiation we see that cannot be
accounted for by other celestial bodies in fact originated from the Big Bang
Singularity, and that therefore this Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is
further proof of the Big Bang Theory.
Let’s move on to what we know. Radiation is uni-directional. That is to say
that radiation, unless affected by matter or gravity, does not change
direction. Furthermore, if we are to see radiation, it has to approach us
directly from its point of origin, bounce off another body of matter, or
perhaps be bent through gravitational force.
The problem arises from the fact that any microwave radiation being
projected from a nuclear explosion which resulted in the universe would
be traveling entirely too fast to be observed by us, as we are comprised
of matter which only much later would have had time to form into human beings.
This necessitates that any microwave radiation that we’re currently seeing is
either not from the Big Bang Singularity, or that it bounced off something
else before it came to us in which case it would be hard to differentiate as
coming from another source; however, if it did indeed bounce off other matter
before reaching us then it would only be coming from the direction of the most
distant celestial bodies as the radiation coming to us from closer objects
would’ve already passed us as well.
Another interpretation is that Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation resulted
from the vast expansion of initial matter caused by the Big Bang that’s just
now reaching us. However this would dictate that said microwave radiation would
come from a more or less concentrated point of origin, and that therefore at
least a large portion of it would not reach us from the area of the universe
that is on the other side of the Genesis Point (see figure 1). Furthermore,
radiation reaching us from matter moving the other way outward from the Genesis
Point would’ve been red-shifted into something other than microwaves due to the
Doppler Effect. Therefore, as Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation reaches us
from all directions with little disparity in strength, coverage, and frequency
(see figure 2), the idea that it can account for the Big Bang Theory can be
dismissed. [Figure 1]
As was demonstrated, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation can in no way help
explain the beginning of the universe, as it’s arriving entirely too late,
from too many origins, and in too uniform in frequency to be caused by the Big
Bang Singularity. Further speculation as to what may have caused it is
warranted. [Figure 2]
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cobe-cosmic-background-radiation.gif (figure 2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_experiments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang_theory