I have to put the following on the table. And it does lead to TESTABLE hypotheses at least in principle.
Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfven was skeptical of the Big Bang, he had a student Bibhas De who may look like he went off the deep end, but Dr. De has the right skill sets of antenna engineering to critique the original Wilson-Penzias microwave detection, COBE, WMAP, PLANCK. He points out what he believes are fraudulent reports of the black body curve. It would have been easy to dismiss Dr. De as a crank, but whether he is or is not is ultimately irrelevant. Testable hypotheses count, and if Dark Matter can be pursued so vigorously and yet yield no direct results, I think anything goes, personally if it can be tested experimentally.
Dr. De brought up the experiments of Paris Herouni
which is at variance with the Black Body radiation curve claimed to be validated by Nobel Prize winner John Mather to 1 part in 55 million.
In contrast, this is Dr. Herouni’s paper (translated somewhat clumsily in English):
http://rnas.asj-oa.am/2542/1/73.pdf
If it is right, then our measured noises near Zenith had to be 2,6 + 2,7 = 5,3K. But they are absent. It is also impossible that our 2,6 K is 2,7 K of Relict. Because it will be only in case, if our Antenna is ideal and its Self Noises are equal 0 K. But it is impossible on Earth. So there is only one explanation, that Relict radiation is absent in Universe, and it is that there never was any Big Bang [3, 4, 5] in Universe.
Dr. De unfortunately has apparently given up on putting any semblance of being scholarly anymore. But it was through his website I learned of Dr. Herouni’s antenna.
Dr. De critiques the major experiments and space probes from the perspective of an antenna engineer. His claims are in principle testable.
Anyway in this link he covers the problems with
COBE FIRAS, COBE-DMR, WMAP, PLANCK satelite experiments:
But no matter how badly Dr. De comes across, at the base level, the experiments in principle are re-doable the right way. That is not practical at this time. In lieu of that, there are qualified antenna engineers who can evaluate Dr. De’s claims.
I would totally dismiss Dr. De if it weren’t for Professor Herouni’s work, and Herouni is a respected radio astronomer.
Unfortunately someone with a bad reputation made the only video I know of regarding Herouni’s work. I distance myself from many of PM Robitaile’s claims in the following video except regarding his reporting of Herouni’s work:
