"N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)" wrote in message
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| Dear Chris L Peterson:
|
| "Chris L Peterson" wrote in message
| ...
| On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:24:04 -0700, "N:dlzc D:aol T:com
| \(dlzc\)"
| wrote:
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| We can see in the direction we are moving
| away from, and there is no glowing core of
| some sort of explosion.
|
| Every direction we look is the direction we
| are moving away from.
|
| More specifically, we have an anomalous motion wrt the Universe
| at large, to the tune of 300 km/sec away from (towards?) Virgo.
|
| And we do, in fact, see the glowing core of
| the Big Bang- it's called the cosmic
| microwave background.
|
| This was a self-excited plasma state that quenched 300,000
| *after* the Big Bang.
|
| Of course, you're perfectly correct in pointing
| out that the Big Bang wasn't an explosion in
| any real sense. Thinking of it as an explosion
| has to be understood as an analogy, and can't
| be taken literally.
|
| ... but because of the choice of words, guarantees that it will
| be taken literally ...
|
| All covered in the Cosmology pages I directed the OP to.
|
| David A. Smith

What's the red shift of the CMBR, Smiffy?