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Text Box: Reviewed 3 December 2007 Requests for clarifications to eugenesittampalam (at) gmail.com – most welcome!
Text Box: In the macroscopic world of aviation research, man takes about sixty years to get from Kitty Hawk to the Sea of Tranquility. He uses classical mechanics. In the submicroscopic world of fusion research, he also takes about sixty years... but with neither a viable machine nor one envisaged even for the next sixty years. He uses modern quantum mechanics. Do these not tell us that, perhaps, something fundamental is distorting our vision of the atomic world when viewed through today's quantum mechanics?
Text Box: At wavelengths in the range of millimeters to centimeters, the extraterrestrial electromagnetic radiation background is dominated by an isotropic component, the cosmic background radiation, or CBR. The isotropy suggests the CBR is a sea of radiation that uniformly fills space. This would mean an observer in any other galaxy would see the same intensity of radiation, equally bright in all directions, consistent with the cosmological principle.” P. J. E. Peebles, Principles of Physical Cosmology, Princeton University Press (1993); pp 131-134
Text Box: We worked through the night on this, and by dawn we could see the pattern we were looking for: the dipole anisotropy, showing part of the sky warmer (blueshifted) and the opposite part cooler (redshifted). …Not only is the entire Galaxy rotating, as it should be, but, unexpectedly, it is also moving through space. And it was moving very fast – six hundred kilometers a second, or more than a million miles an hour. George Smoot & Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time, Little, Brown & Co, UK (1993); p 137
Text Box: The motion of the Solar System relative to the frame in which the cosmic background radiation is isotropic is... 370 ± 10 km s–1 to a = 11.2h, d = – 7o; l = 264.7 ± 0.8o, b = 48.2 ± 0.5o. The conventional correction for the solar motion relative to the Local Group is 300 km s–1 to l = 90o, b = 0. ... With this correction, the velocity of the Local Group relative to the CBR is 600 km s–1 toward a = 10.5h, d = – 26o (l = 268o, b = 27o). P. J. E. Peebles, Principles of Physical Cosmology, Princeton University Press (1993); p 152