The OTHER Relic Radiation

The Other Relic Radiation

The Big Bang Theory predicts that the energy unleashed in the moment of Creation should be detectable today, pervasive throughout the entire Universe. Though the Cosmic Microwave Background has already been shown to fail virtually every test for this predicted relic of the 'last scattering', as theologians are want to say, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.' To come closer to a firm conclusion, we must also consider other aspects of the nature of relic radiation. Specifically, we must consider the unspoken prediction of another kind of ancient radiation.

It has been firmly established that when intergalactic dust begins to collapse due to gravitational forces that it will, in keeping with Boyle's Law, become quite hot, reaching temperatures measured in millions of degrees. So hot, in fact, that it will emit X-rays. These X-rays have been detected emanating from the Inter-Galactic Medium of huge galaxy clusters.

Bearing this in mind, we may ponder the supposed "Dark Age" of the Universe, the period that the Big Bang Theory states came between the 'last scattering' and the ignition of the first stars. During this era, nearly all the galaxies that exist today would have formed out of the gaseous material resulting from the creation event itself, which, at that time, was even more densely packed than the IGM of the largest clusters today. Thus, in addition to an 'echo' of the Big Bang, we must also expect to find another relic radiation, also coming from all directions, that originated as X-rays during the intense period of gravitational collapse the formed the galaxies.

Since the Creation echo should have, according to theory, originally peaked somewhere in the visible spectrum, and these X-rays should have been emitted afterward, they would be redshifted to a lesser extent. Also, since the formation of the galaxies occurred over a vastly long time, we can predict that this other radiation should presently be visible over a vastly wide range of wavelengths, running from Ultraviolet, through the Visible, and into the near Infrared.

Obviously, this radiation has not been detected. Since it should exist, in part, in the Visible range of the spectrum, one would expect that it should be very easy to locate.

The lack of this variety of relic radiation, which should be detectable with the naked eye, were it real, presents strong evidence in the context of the Big Bang, that

A) most galaxies did not form at roughly the same time, and

B) could not have formed prior to the ignition of the first stars.

Both of these issues present critical problems for the Big Bang theory.

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