Dear Yousuf Khan:

"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc) wrote:
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publ...e.html?1132005
... CMBR interacting with galaxies some 7 billion years ago...

This one seems to talk about all of the perceived variances in
the CMBR to be just effects of local galaxies creating an
illusionary effect. They can't seem to tell whether the
variances
are locally generated or real ones.

The other two are more clear and in-line with expectations. The
CMBR is cooling. Doesn't mean (by itself) the Universe won't
collapse, or repetitively cycle, only that it is monotonically
cooling for the last 13 Gy and we cannot see "before" or "beyond"
it.

MOND isn't the answer. Neither is Dark Matter, in my opinion.

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I suspect both Dark Matter and Dark Energy to end up being
huge fudge factors. I am usually wrong, however. Just don't
look to them to stay "unmodified and eternal".

What do you expect the final answer will be? Perhaps these are
effects of as yet undiscovered properties of superstrings?

No, I'd go for G (and of course more since alpha can also contain
G) not being a Universal constant, but rather some relationship
to the "dynamo" at the center of the "star grouping in question".
But I'll say again, I am usually wrong.

David A. Smith