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Something to ponder, and please keep an open mind. It seems there is growing evidence for a non cosmological component to redshift in quasars associated with active galaxies such as ngc 7603. This is becoming harder and harder to ignore but as most cosmologists have spent the best parts of their working life believing in a theory that may be wrong they are holding on to it with all they are worth.

The big bang theory seems to be collapsing under the weight of it's own assumptions. For every unaccountable observation there appears a new form of matter or energy to account for it. If we are to believe quasars are at their proposed red shift distances then there is some almost meta-physical process at work within them to account for their brightness. Cant account for the motion of stars in galaxies - must be dark matter, cant account for the expansion - must be dark energy. Come on! and then there is the smear campaign by certain people upon proponents of these new ideas, is that a manifestation of fear i wonder. I don't mean to stir but I'm becoming very frustrated with being told I have to believe in an idea that is so obviously (I wont say wrong) but not as complete as some would have the public think. I'm also being told I'm committing academic suicide by supporting these (not so) new theories. Isn't the truth more important that being seen to be right or holding an esteemed position based on a lie?

Maybe I have shot myself in the foot, but maybe some of you will follow up on this post and see another side to things. I always thought the search for truth was what science was about, not money or power. But then again I'm young and a bit of an idealist. Maybe time will beat that out of me. If you interested google Dr Halton Arp, and before you scoff check out the support he is now getting from some more noted leaders in the field.

P.S At the turn of the century everyone thought the milky way was all there was and newtonian physics explained all.