More Evidence for Big Bang Universe
More Evidence for Big Bang Universe
Air date: 5-22-07
Dave Rogstad, Jeff Zweerink, and Joe Aguirre
- Discoveries
- Does a dark matter ring discovery validate creation?
- “Astronomers Find Ring of Dark Matter with Hubble Space Telescope,” NASA news release, May 15, 2007.
- Resource:
- The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross
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- Just how old is the universe?
- G. Fritz Benedict et al., “Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheid Variable Stars: Period-Luminosity Relations, Astronomical Journal 133 (April 2007): 1810-27.
- Resources:
- The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross
- Creation as Science, by Hugh Ross
- Fine-tuning the cosmic distance scale.
- Saurabh Jha, Adam G. Riess, and Robert P. Kirshner, “Improved Distances to Type Ia Supernovae with Multicolor Light-Curve Shapes; MLCS2k2,” Astrophysical Journal 659 (April 10, 2007): 122-48.
- Resources:
- G. Fritz Benedict et al., “Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheid Variable Stars: Period-Luminosity Relations, Astronomical Journal 133 (April 2007): 1810-27.
- Call-in questions
- Ed from Des Moines, IA:
- He asks several questions on what scientists mean by standard or multiverse models and how they point to a singularity. The questions come in response to reading Frank Tipler’s book, The Physics of Christianity.
- See Max Tegmark’s website for understanding multiverse explanations
- Roger from Portland, ME:
- Joe from Bismarck, ND:
- Ed from Des Moines, IA:
- Email questions
- Dave asks:
- Rob Gibson:
- Is there a new cyclic universe model? Why, since the old one seemed more straightforward?
- A couple of emailers ask what RTB thinks about Guillermo Gonzalez having been
denied tenure at Iowa State University.
- Resource:
- The Privileged Planet, by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards
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