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Tue Mar  9 05:50:37 1982
Variable C
I saw the calculations in either a Science News or Scientific American article
several years ago.  I am sure someone can be more specific.
Basically the argument goes as follows.  The background radiation is so
low because the frontier of the universe is expanding, implying a massive
redshift of all energies from the big bang.  But this redshift is NOT equal
in all directions.  Rather, some directions are decidedly "hotter" than
others.  The pattern is such to suggest that we are moving at about 300 mps
towards the "hot" spot.  ie that there is a frame of reference in which we
are moving which, if any frame of reference can, is an "absolute" frame
of reference.
As to claims that "there are no absolute frames of reference because all
physical laws are invariant," bull.  We do NOT know that physical laws
are invariant.  We know that SOME physical laws are invariant for a LOCAL
area of space at a CERTAIN period of time.  We have not even shown that
EM force is indeed inverse square over large distances (all experiments
have been over short distances that have any reasonable degree of accuracy).
It SHOULD be inverse square, and I would bet on it, but it is a DEDUCTION,
not a directly observed fact (ie one that depends only upon the correctness
of a simple detection mechanism).
We don't know half of what we do know.  (yes, that is recursive)
Jim
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