The CMB, axis of evil, and the Oort Cloud

[mikehelland]

Background: Alternative cosmologies need an explanation of the CMB. The mainstream explanation has a problem known as the axis of evil which aligns the CMB with the solar system.

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The suggestion here is that the CMB is not a cosmological phenomenon, but actually has its origin in the solar system. Here's a couple pages I found. They don't seem to be written by credible authors, but I'm curious if anyone has thoughts on these.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/20...1006P/abstract
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is NOT a Relic of the Big Bang
Prevenslik, Thomas
APS April Meeting 2021, abstract id.Z21.006

The CMB evolved from the Penzias and Wilson discovery of microwave radiation coming from space. Today, the CMB temperature at 2 . 725 +/- 0 . 00057 K is thought to be a relic of the Big Bang. However, the CMB may only be microwave emission from debris in the Oort Cloud. Unlike the disk-like Planetary System in the ecliptic of the Sun, the Oort cloud is spherical allowing the emission of EM radiation observed by Penzias and Wilson to be uniform in all directions. At 10,000 AU, the Oort cloud at 2.725 K varies by +/- 0 . 00057 K spread over about 12 AU. Because the Planck law denies atoms at a given temperature under EM confinement the heat capacity to conserve heat by a change in temperature, a debris temperature of 2.725 K is only possible for solar radiation having wavelengths λ > 20,000 microns where atoms do indeed have classical and finite heat capacity. Otherwise, solar heat is conserved by creating standing EM waves across the debris diameters d, where d > λ/2n. For refractive index n = 1.5, the minimum d > 7 m which means more than 8 billion asteroids in the Oort cloud emit discrete CMB radiation that appears spotted on WMAP and Planck surveys. Since the CMB of the Big Bang would be uniform and not spotted, the CMB is NOT a relic of the Big Bang

And here's another guys take on it:

http://aoi.com.au/OortSoup/index.htm
P2: The Oort Soup as the real origin of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Something else to consider would be the heliopause. We learned, somewhat recently, that it's much hotter there than thought:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/20...1019R/abstract

Voyager 2 observations show that the temperature is 30,000-50,000 K, whereas models and observations predicted a VLISM temperature of 15,000-30,000 K.

Here's someone trying to connect the two:

https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2978
A Heliosheath Model for the Origin of the CMB Quadrupole Moment

Any thoughts on these ideas about a local origin for the CMB?

(PS, If your theory of the CMB is not related to the solar system, this is not the thread for them.)

[RedshiftDrift]

T. Prevenslik's redshift model is listed on the ACG website However hard somenoe may try, dust does not have the correct properties to imitate the cosmological redshift. Moreover, so much dust is needed, distant galaxies would not be visible. The paper says "Because the Planck law denies atoms at a given temperature under EM confinement the heat capacity to conserve heat by a change in temperature..." This is nonsense, Planck's law doesn't 'deny' anything.

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I've never heard of David Noel and his Oort soup. Looking at his website, "The Oort Soup -- most of the Universe" is another 'CMB generated by dust' hypothesis. It doesn't work for the same reasons given above.

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I didn't know about that work, H.N. Sharpe is on the right track with his "Heliosheath Model for the Origin of the CMB Quadrupole Moment" This was discuted at length on the ACosmologyGroup@gaggle.mail forum [private] in early 2023, just before continuing the discussions on github. (Were you a member then @mikehelland ?)

[mikehelland]

Thanks @RedshiftDrift .

I'm not interested in Prevenslik's redshift model (I have my own), just the possibility of an Oort cloud - CMB connection. The standing waves bit in particular. I'm not familiar with how that would work (or if it even does).

I wasn't part of the discussion prior to finding this github repo. I'm very grateful for it!