What if one of modern cosmology’s greatest triumphs was built on a false story? In this talk from DemystiCon: Beyond the Big Bang, physicist and historian of science Dr. Andre Koch Torres Assis digs deep into the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the so-called “fingerprint” of the Big Bang, and uncovers a history that challenges the dominant narrative.

Contrary to popular belief, George Gamow and the Big Bang camp never predicted the CMB’s 2.7K temperature. In fact, their estimates were off by nearly an order of magnitude. Meanwhile, steady-state cosmologists consistently predicted the correct background temperature of space long before the CMB was discovered by Penzias and Wilson.

The difference was that instead of searching for the birth of the universe, they were simply calculating the temperature of cold, rocky bodies absorbing and remitting distant starlight.

Assis weaves together redshift anomalies, missing histories of radioastronomy, and overlooked insights from pioneers like Finlay Freundlich to show how a false myth of prediction has been used to cement the Big Bang as fact, rather than leaving open the possibility of the CMB being the signal of an eternal universe.

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00:00 Go!

00:06:06 Predictions of Cosmic Background Radiation

00:12:30 The Role of Stefan-Boltzmann Law

00:18:44 Cosmic Rays and Intergalactic Space

00:24:12 Red Shift and Its Implications

00:32:22 Observations of the Sun's Red Shift

00:36:04 Freundlich's Groundbreaking Insights

00:39:08 Connection to Radio Astronomy

00:40:58 Conclusion on Cosmic Background Radiation

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