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Posted by JPC on Sat Jun 14 21:19:35 2008, in response to Re: Weather Channel Founder Blasts Gore, Blames Him for Economic Woes, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jun 14 11:43:14 2008. 50 years ago, an even greater majority of physicists believed in the steady-state universe.Not sure about that (although I can ask around to some of the older faculty where I am). The steady state cosmology was entirely dead by the mid 1960's, (which was about when it was proposed by Hoyle et al), so the "steady state cosmology" per se was never accepted by anything resembling a majority of scientists. It was always fringe science. It was fringe when it was proposed, and it's on the extreme lunatic fringe today (especially now that COBE and WMAP have released their results, providing completely independent and orthogonal confirmation of the essential details of the Big Bang cosmology). It is true that prior to the 1930's most physicists believed in an eternal universe, but that was based entirely on philosophical considerations. There was zero scientific evidence for this (isn't now, and never was any), and in fact if you "read between the lines" using 20/20 hindsight there was substantial scientific evidence going back to at least the mid-1800's which militated for a universe of finite age; it was the philosophical objections to a singularity which prevented the scientific evidence from being considered as such until the 1930's, when the first direct measurements of galactic distance (using the Cepheid period-luminosity relationship) and redshift were made. |
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