>>14163085I don't know exactly what's going on, but I don't think the solution is that we simply occupy a privileged position in the universe. More likely, CMB was not caused by the big bang. Physicists made a huge deal out of the COBE mission and how the error bars were soooooooooo so tiny, but all that demonstrated was exactly what we already knew, that CMB is blackbody radiation. ANY radiating blackbody produces exactly the same curve. So all the COBE data told us is that the CMB comes from a single source or natural process, and isn't an aggregate of starlight. It doesn't prove the big bang.
You would also expect to see Lyman spectral lines present in the CMB according to the big bang hypothesis, which you don't see. It is certainly odd that the CMB appears to be absolutely uniform everywhere you look (aside from being Doppler-shifted, which is hard to reconcile with a framework of the universe without frames), despite the fact that the distribution of matter in the universe is decidedly NOT uniform.
Halton Arp's book really opened my eyes when he noted that the "aggregate" theory of galactic formation didn't seem to match his observations. In most cases it appears that galaxies are budding off from each other, separating like biological cells, rather than merging.
I think that the CMB comes from a continuously generated source originating in deep space.
