Re: Some basic question on Redshift

From: Brian Tung (brian_at_isi.edu)
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:04:36 +0000 (UTC)

Tim Killian wrote:
> One of the pillars of modern cosmology is the nearly universal belief
> that measured redshift directly corresponds to distance. Any other
> interpretation is career-ending heresy, so just repeat this ten times
> every day in front of a portrait of Edwin Hubble and several lit candles:

Halton Arp seemed to do just fine. His views are deprecated, but he
has published plenty of stuff, I think.

However, he seems to have an incomplete perception of statistics, and
has therefore systematically underestimated the a priori likelihood of
some alignments. This was discussed on SAA some number of years ago.

Brian Tung <brian@isi.edu>
The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/
  Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/
  The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/
  My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt