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from Part II - Discovery of the CMB and current cosmological orthodoxy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2024
As the chapter points out, standard cosmology textbooks offer a triumphant account of the Hot Big Bang model as the orthodoxy that was almost instantly accepted with the discovery of the CMB by Penzias and Wilson. Yet this historical account does not reveal the whole story of the orthodoxy’s gradual ascent and the all but forgotten, but at the time important, side roads. We argue that historical analysis must shun the triumphant partial account, but resist eliminating the current understanding as irrelevant for understanding the past. If approached in a balanced manner, the story of the CMB evidence often diverges from the values that unequivocally lent support to the orthodoxy, thus opening the space for alternative interpretations.
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