Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

My previous volume rejected the belief that the cosmological redshift of light resulted from the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang. It concluded that a better explanation was provided by a non-relativistic theory based on Fritz Zwicky's tired-light theory as elaborated by Arthur Compton. This book reviews the origin of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, which was first discovered in 1965 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. With a standard optical telescope, the background space between stars and galaxies is almost completely dark. However, a sufficiently sensitive radio telescope detects a faint background glow that is almost uniform and is not associated with any star, galaxy, or other object. This glow is strongest in the microwave region of the radio spectrum. According to the Big Bang theory, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is relic radiation from the Big Bang. However, as measurements of the CMB improved, contradictions with this theory's predictions began to emerge and it began to fall apart. Alternative explanations began to emerge. The analysis in this volume suggests that the cosmic microwave background radiation resulted from clouds of ionized plasma from thermonuclear reactions in stars colliding with clouds of intergalactic dust. As with the previous volume, it concludes that there was no Big Bang, the universe is not just 13.8 billion years old, but is indefinitely old, and in a steady state, not expanding.