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Panel 1 - Reality of Cosmic Expansion

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Authors	Affiliation	Title	Abstract
Tom Van Flandern	Meta Research, Sequim WA, USA	The Two Pillars of the Big Bang Fall	The Big Bang theory has two pillars: redshift caused by velocity --> expanding universe; microwave radiation --> fireball remnant. But supernova data corrected for Malmquist bias shows no "time dilation", so cosmological redshift cannot be caused by velocity. And the absence of the S-Z effect in ~ half of galaxy clusters means microwave radiation must be foreground, not background.
Richard Lieu	Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville AL, USA	The key milestone achievements of LCDM cosmology will be summarized with the intention of critically assessing whether they can be defended against the prolific number of unverified or unverifiable assumptions made.  Important new observations that can clinch the model with current technology will be described.	The success of LCDM cosmology lies with its ability to explain by one mathematically sophisticated model therscale dependence of the CMB anisotropy, structure formation, light element abundance, and the age of the Universe. There are however at least six independent assumptions about space, time, matter, and energy that do not correspond to our everyday experience and cannot be verified in the laboratory within the foreseeable future. Examples are the Hubble expansion and the Planck time. There are also many unexplained phenomena, labeled as 'small details', such as the missing 50% of the baryons at low redshift, the anomalies of cluster X-ray spectra, the dwarf galaxy rotation curves and the abundance of satellites around the Local Group spirals. A number of future observations will play a decisive role on the fate and evolution of LCDM. These include weak lensing surveys, strong lensing time delay and Einstein ring distortion measurements, evidence for the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from the Planck mission, soft X-ray detection of the warm-hot intergalactic medium, and a catalog of the WMAP5 acoustic peaks.
Eric Lerner
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Amitabha Ghosh	Indian Nat'l Science Academy, West Bengal, INDIA	Cosmological Redshift in a Quasistatic Universe	The observed cosmological redshift is a result of a dynamic gravitational interaction of photons with the matter in the universe which is quasistatic, i.e. no universal expansion. The dynamic gravitation that is responsible for the cosmological redshift also produces a number of other  effects in the solar system which are verified quantitatively through actual observations. No free adjustable parameters are involved.
Jerry W. Jensen		Supernova 2006gy and the Copernicus Principle: Modern Cosmology Meets Goliath	By applying rational interpretations of the Copernicus principle and acknowledging that selection effects known broadly as Malmquist bias should favor the observation of more luminous events with increasing distance, we demonstrate that reasonable interpretations of supernova light-curves includes the possibility that there is no evidence of time dilation in the supernova events we observe at cosmological distances.