Steady State Theory
Artist's Progress Report
I have set up this web site to promote discussion of the Steady State Theory.
Now I wait to see if the web will bring any interesting responses addressing this topic.
Meanwhile I want to begin examining the original arguments against the Steady State Theory.
Based on the original theory, a supposition was put forward about the distribution of radio
source stars it predicted. However, observations contradicted the predictions.
Let's look at that argument today. Below is a statement of that argument from
http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/study/sci/cosmo/internal/steady.htm
"For any sources if the distribution is uniform the fainter ones will be the most distant.
If we draw a sphere around us corresponding to a certain brightness then the number of such
sources will be proportional to the surface area of that sphere, and thus proportional to
radius squared. The number of sources brighter than that certain brightness should be
proportional to the volume of that sphere, an hence radius cubed, as they will all lie
within the sphere. A graph of the log of the number of sources at a particular brightness,
to the log of the number of sources brighter than that brightness, should have a gradient
of 1.5 (=3/2) For radio sources the ratio is 1.8 showing that there are more bright radio
sources at greater distance, and hence earlier times than would be expected for a steady
state universe. The conclusion is that the universe is evolving or at least changing."
There are several assumptions in this argument. The one that strikes me first is the
assumption that the brightness of a radio source is uniform over time.
If there were any reason why older radio sources would be more intense, then
that would account for the more distant stars (the "older" ones) showing such a gradient.
From Wikipedia, "Even during its current life in the main sequence, the Sun is gradually becoming more luminous
(about 10% every 1 billion years), and its surface temperature is slowly rising."
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