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A team of astronomers is claiming to have observed an object
whose existence shatters the underpinnings of the Big Bang Theory.
The quasar group called huge LQG is supposedly so enormous
it would comprise roughly 5% of the observable universe.
By conventional reasoning an object of this size simply cannot have formed
since the theoretical Big Bang explosion.
According to lead author Dr. Roger Close the finding
"upsets the foundation of everything we do."
But as is so often the case with baffling space discoveries,
are we being told the complete story?
The question that arises from this recent finding of a gigantic quasar cluster
which, according to the headline, shatters long-held theories of space,
is that it actually shatters long-held theory of the Big Bang,
but just not specified it's just put in general terms,
because, of course, there is no alternative to the Big Bang Theory at present
or at least there isn't according to conventional science.
Of course, the Electric Universe sees all this as being confirmation
of Halton Arp's work of decades ago
where he actually predicted that these highly red-shifted objects, the quasars,
would appear to be larger and larger and brighter and brighter the higher the redshift,
simply because of this idea that the redshift is a measure of the distance.
Now, Halton Arp has shown and the Electric Universe actually expects that quasars
are nearly faint because they are young they've just been recently hatched so to speak,
from a parent galaxy and they are highly redshifted.
But they are born from nearby galaxies, so these things are much closer
than the 9 billion light-years that is specified in the article.
This large quasar group, they call it the huge quasar group,
it's almost 9 billion light-years away
that's if the distance is proportional to redshift assumption that they make is true.
It's 4 billion light-years long.
The press release says it would take 4 billion years to cross it,
which makes it sound like it's more or less spherical,
but actually it's only 1 billion light-years wide, it's actually a filament.
That paper that reports on it says discreetly that it's substantially elongated.
That is quite bit elongated, it covers 20 degrees at the sky,
you could put 44 moons side by side along length of it.
Of course it's thin, it's not anywhere near spherical.
The sizes come from the assumption that the distance is proportional to its redshift.
Its redshift is 1.27 and the magnitudes of the quasars in it, range from 18 to 19,
but there could be some fainter ones because the survey arbitrarily cut off at 19.
It lies 25 degrees west of the Virgo cluster and the magnitude range
of the objects in it are similar to the Z = 1 quasars
that Halton Arp has associated with Virgo cluster.
It overlies 3 massive galaxies M95, M96 and M105
which are little bit closer than the Virgo cluster according to the standard reckoning.
So, it's kind on the fringes of the Virgo cluster
and my first guess is that these quasars are actually ejections
from these massive galaxies at the edge of Virgo.
So, if they're at the conventional distance of the Virgo cluster then this huge group
is only 20 million light-years long instead of 4 billion!
It's 200 times closer than what they think it is and it's only a half 1%
as big as they think it's.
The result of this distance proportional to redshift assumption is that
astronomers are looking at gnats swarming around their heads
and thinking that they see fleets of 747 on the horizon!
The observational evidence that undermines the,
distance is proportional to redshift assumption, has been known since the 1980's
from the work of Halton Arp who noticed that these high-redshift quasars
had statistical and oftentimes a physical association with nearby active galaxies.
Standard astronomers have ignored this evidence
and they back themselves into not just a corner but a very wrong dead end.
If redshift is not primarily a measure of distance then
the expanding universe and the Big Bang cosmology are obsolete.
The astronomers observations of huge LQG also challenge the cosmological principle
which theorizes that the universe is homogeneous or the same in all directions.
The cosmological principle actually goes back to Newton
that is the assumptions again there's that assumption
that we don't occupy a unique place in the universe, that at sufficiently large scales
the universe will look the same from every point within it.
So, if this holes up this would mean that at largest scale
the universe is not homogeneous, that this clump of matter
couldn't have developed from gravity since the Big Bang.
Notably absent from media coverage of huge LQG is any meaningful discussion
of the predictive success of the astronomer Halton Arp.
It really is scandalous that Halton Arp, a noted astronomer of his day,
who predicted that this kind of observation would be made
is not even mentioned in the article and in fact I've seen no comment anywhere
in the news items at all about Halton Arp's work which predicted this kind of finding.
You would expect that a finding which goes against what is generally believed,
and something that is predicted, would be headline news,
and that Halton Arp should be singled out for recognition.
Instead of that we see nothing, silence, and this waffling about long-held theories
of space without saying that the Big Bang Theory has actually been disproven.
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