UNDER YOUR FUKING FEET! Now go out side and touch grass. your welcome.
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There's an interesting and untold story underlying the "Axis of Evil". In very brief:
It looks like Science(tm) wanted to back up their Big Bang fable by studying the Cosmic Microwave Background. They sent up first the COBE then the WMAP satellites.
These were some rigged and bullshit experiments and--sure enough!--they proved the Big Bang and the age of the Universe, etc. But the rigging seems to have unintentionally induced a bias that shows itself as this Axis of Evil. Ooops!
So they had a real dilemma. On the one hand, they could get rid of the Axis of Evil by saying that their experiments were fucked up, but then their confirmation of the Big Bang goes out the window with it. On the other, they can stand pat and just let everyone forget about the whole Axis of Evil business.
The public memory being what it is, they're holding on to the Big Bang and gambling on the forgetting.
It is really weird when people who work with all that complex astrophysics stuff suddenly fall to Karen's level of assuming some basic things.
Current understanding of Universe is that it expands everywhere more or less evenly and everything moves in addition. So, if you began to measure this expansion from some point using, say, red shift or whatever, you will suddenly find that you are in the center of expansion. :) Adding to that overall movement of Earth around Sun, Sun around center of Milki Way, Milky Way in local galaxy cluster, cluster in respect to other clusters and background, you will easily get weird, irregular and unpredictable, but pretty obvious results.
Somehow that irregularities in CBM and impossibility to account for all possible forming components of movement went to that Axis of Evil thing.
BigBang theory is based on few unproven dogmas - that speed of light is a constant, nothing could move faster than light, photon could not lose energy while traveling, metric of space have exactly 3 dimentions everywhere, current expansion is one-way process and few other. And on top o that it all covered with that Karen's impression of that presumable BigBang as regular explosion when everything expands from single point. So, astrophysicist looking into the skies think that they see this CBM as remnants of flash from their BigBang, far away from distant past running much faster than closer objects, so light from flash turned into microwaves due to red shift they observe. Things could be completely different if only one of their holy dogmas turn out to be false for a little bit. And with high probability all of them are false and some in huge. So, when you try to rig your observations to fit some beloved theory with its dogmas, all kind of shit will pop up. :)
Interesting, when amount of inconsistencies in attempts to preserve current set of dogmas will overhelm the obedience of scientists who already looks bored in current dogmatism that hinder scientific progress almost for century.
That brings up the untold story underlying the untold story, and a part of what first drew my attention to the issue....
Maybe a decade or more ago, after the "Axis of Evil" thing came out, I watched an interview with a documentarian who had made a film about it called, "The Principle". He somehow got all the big mainstream astrophysics names: Laurence Krauss, Michio Kaku, Max Tegmark, Lisa Randall, etc.
But the thing was, the new findings violated the Copernican Principle: that there were no special places in the Universe. Thus the title. It all finally dawned on these geniuses and they tried to back out, but they had signed all the paperwork.
To top it off, this guy was a Christian and took it as confirmation of, you know, whatever. So lawsuits flew and all the rest and the film virtually vanished. Last time I looked, you could still scrape up some remnants of it's existence, but it wasn't easy.
thats a good film. Robert Sungenis one of creators has a copy on his channel