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- The Cosmic Microwave Background
- The Cosmic Microwave Background
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Physical cosmology: A brief introduction
- Part II Discovery of the CMB and current cosmological orthodoxy
- Part III What constitutes an unorthodoxy? An epistemological framework of cosmology
- Part IV Moderate unorthodoxies: The CMB with the Big Bang
- Part V Radical unorthodoxies: The CMB without the Big Bang
- 18 Motivations
- 19 Hoyle–Narlikar theory and the changing masses origin of the CMB
- 20 Revised steady state
- 21 Closed steady-state models
- 22 CMB in plasma cosmology
- 23 CMB in non-expanding models
- Part VI Formation of the orthodoxy and the alternatives: Epistemological lessons
- Part VII Other philosophically relevant aspects of the CMB
- Book part
- Notes
- References
- Index
22 - CMB in plasma cosmology
from Part V - Radical unorthodoxies: The CMB without the Big Bang
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2024
- The Cosmic Microwave Background
- The Cosmic Microwave Background
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Physical cosmology: A brief introduction
- Part II Discovery of the CMB and current cosmological orthodoxy
- Part III What constitutes an unorthodoxy? An epistemological framework of cosmology
- Part IV Moderate unorthodoxies: The CMB with the Big Bang
- Part V Radical unorthodoxies: The CMB without the Big Bang
- 18 Motivations
- 19 Hoyle–Narlikar theory and the changing masses origin of the CMB
- 20 Revised steady state
- 21 Closed steady-state models
- 22 CMB in plasma cosmology
- 23 CMB in non-expanding models
- Part VI Formation of the orthodoxy and the alternatives: Epistemological lessons
- Part VII Other philosophically relevant aspects of the CMB
- Book part
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
The chapter briefly discusses an alternative explanation of the CMB origin in the semipopular plasma cosmology of O. Klein, later advocated by others. The approach took the still mysterious observed matter–antimatter asymmetry as its starting point, arguing in favor of symmetry with slow annihilation that provides (in principle) the energy contained in the CMB. Later versions added a challenge to the dark matter hypothesis and its solution by pointing to the problem of equilibrated parts of the expanding universe. Although developed in some detail, this sort of explanation eventually had to draw on older ideas (e.g., tired-light hypothesis) in the face of the COBE mission results.
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- The Cosmic Microwave BackgroundHistorical and Philosophical Lessons, pp. 124 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024