Apr 06, 2006
Too Many Galaxies
An overabundance of galaxies in the early Big Bang universe is just a
normal population of next-generation galaxies in the
intrinsic-redshift universe.
A press release from the European Southern
Observatory (ESO) announces that“a team of French and Italian
astronomers ... made use of the VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph (VIMOS)
on Melipal, one of the 8.2-m telescopes of ESO's Very Large
Telescope Array. VIMOS can observe the spectra of about 1,000
galaxies in one exposure, from which redshifts, hence distances, can
be measured....
“[Their] aim is to measure in some selected patch of
the sky the redshift of all galaxies brighter than magnitude 24 in
the red....
“In a total sample of about 8,000 galaxies selected
only on the basis of their observed brightness in red light, almost
1,000 bright and vigorously star forming galaxies were discovered at
an epoch 1,500 to 4,500 million years after the Big Bang (redshift
between 1.4 and 5)....
“While observations and models have consistently
indicated that the Universe had not yet formed many stars in the
first billion years of cosmic time, the discovery made by the
scientists calls for a significant change in this picture.”
But for the past several decades, astronomer Halton
Arp and a handful of coworkers have been finding that high-redshift
galaxies and quasars are associated with, often connected to, nearby
active galaxies. To see these associations, Arp and his colleagues
had to look at a
wider field of view. Blind faith in the
redshift-equals-distance dogma prevents conventional astronomers
from looking outside their narrow fields of view to see what large,
bright active galaxies are nearby. Arp’s observations undermine the
conventional redshift-equals-distance assumption. Small, faint,
high-redshift galaxies are not far away but are actually
small,
faint, and nearby.
With Arp’s observations in mind, it’s no surprise
that there are many more galaxies with high redshifts than can be
accounted for in the Big Bang model: The Big Bang requires many
billions of years for galaxies to form after the initial explosion.
But in
Arp’s universe, active galaxies are continually
“giving birth” to quasars, which “grow up” into small, faint
galaxies and then into companion galaxies.
A proper scientific study would supplement the survey of “galaxies selected
only on the basis of their observed brightness” with another that
analyzes the selected galaxies’ distance from and alignment with
active galaxies in the vicinity.
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