@georgeob1,
georgeob1 wrote:A lot of vitriol and confusion in this thread.
There is no vitriol & confusion - where do you see anything of the kind.
Sulfate No.1: The Big Bang is fake ... from any point of view and comprises the greatest pseudo-scientific forgery of any age.
Sulfate No.2: The Big Bang has no evidence. The things that it claims to have as evidence are not evidence of any Big Bang ever happening.
Sulfate No.3: The red shift could not only be evidence of any expansion of the Universe, but it can be evidence of a lot of other physical processes as well - like for example blue shift in (shrinking of) the particles with the time; optical loss in the light beam when light travels in space and time and in different medium - after all a distance of 13.8 lys and time of 13.8 years are not a joke.
Sulfate No.4: The CMB is not independent evidence to the Big Bang 'theory' - it is absolutely correlated with the light (and its red shift respectively), and besides that it may be explained by reflection of light from the 'edge' of the Universe, for example.
Sulfate No.5: If the Universe is expanding (with acceleration) this is very serious deviation as a claim: aren't we are living in that very same Universe: everything in it should be expanding - the Milky Way should be taking away from Andromeda and not be on the schedule of collision in 4 bys; the SS should be expanding as well; the orbit of the Earth, for example, around the Sun, should be expanding; our planet should be expanding; the magnetic field of the Earth should be expanding; our town should be expanding; our room should be expanding; our laptop should be expanding as well ... O.K., that is enough for me. Nothing is expanding - neither with acceleration nor without acceleration. This is simply a physical misinterpretation of the red shift in light, and it is only a misinterpretation and nothing else.
The only thing that is expending to infinity and with acceleration is the ignorance of the supporters of the Big Bang 'theory' - which does not need any evidence, for it is obvious.