(August 10, 2015 at 1:05 pm)Alex K Wrote:(August 10, 2015 at 12:38 pm)pgrimes15 Wrote: I personally don't buy the big bang theory, believing it to be based on a misinterpretation of the redshift. There are a number of alternative cosmologies that have some merit. If I had to put money on something, I would say that the universe is infinite and eternal, or at least that the big bang figure of 14 billion years barely scratches the surface of what truely ancient means (if a human can put a figure to it we haven't understood it). On the other hand, the concepts of infinity and/or eternal are so mindbogglingly incomprehensible that we might is well say "don't know".
One thing that never enters my musings on the subject are magic sky daddys.
Grimesy
Can you give an example of a different interpretation of the red shift that works nearly as well?
Red shift as a indicator of distance rather than speed of recession.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon
