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Observing first clear sky
Last post 11-03-2009 10:09 PM by porcupinehill. 0 replies.
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  • 11-03-2009 10:09 PM

    Observing first clear sky

    According to Partridge "3K: The Cosmic Background Radiation" , the solar system is in motion relative to the CMB.  The motion (to account for the dopplar shift required to create the CMB dipole anistrophy) is 360km/s +/- 20km/s roughly in the direction of constellations Leo and Crater.  This works out to .0012c.

    To stay honest to SR and the prevailing cosmological model, this velocity is relative to the ionized plasma that originally emitted the CMB photons ~350,000 years after the BB. 

    Thought experiment:

    Jump in your ACME starship (equipped with ion drive but without the turbo-warp option) and start accelerating toward Leo and Crater.  The original blue shift of the CMB dipole is enhanced.  Accelerate more and the apparent temperature of the radiation increases well above 3K in the direction of acceleration (and dops toward  0K in the opposite direction).  Continue this acceleration until the temperature of the cmb on the nose of the starship is 3000K (roughly the temperature of the original plasma). 

     The CMB will now be largely in the visible spectrum in a small circle in the original direction of acceleration.  You are now very close to c relative to Earth.  In fact Earth  and the nearby galaxies have contracted by the lorentz factor and nearly disappeared.  The prevailing feature of the universe around you is a bright spot on the nose.

     So... are you now observing the primordial plasma cloud as it existed 13 billion years ago?.  Is it in focus?  Is this a direct observation of the universe right after the BB?

    ph

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