(lymphnote) wrote in message . com...

The red shift from distant glaxies has been interpreted as the
Universe is expanding and, if tracked back in time, the Universe was
formed from a singularity. However, the red shift may not be the
result of Doppler effect after all. Photons age and their red shift
is only observable after very very long time. That is why ancient
photons from distant past appear red shifted. The truly distant
(infinite past) photons turn into background microwave. So, folks, no
Big Bang.

This is the 'tired light' theory of cosmological redshifts. It was
invented to explain the red shift of galaxies. However, it fails to
explain the cosmic microwave background radiation. The key point is
that the conventional expansion theory preserves the 'back-body-ness'
of this radiation, but TL does not (since expansion changes not only
the energy of the photons, but also their density and arrival rate;
TL changes only their energy.) Since the CMBR comes from cosmological
distances, it would have to have been created as a very non-black-body
radiation field that TL just coincidently tweaked into something that
is now extremely close to one.

There are some net cranks who don't or won't understand this argument.

Paul