Astrophysicists never even calculated how much of ''[[intrinsic redshift]]'' there is in the universe before jumping to conclusion that the universe is expanding. Had they calculated, or asked somebody who knows high school calculus, they would have avoided the embarrassment<ref>I've seen an appeal of an astronomer to Carl Sagan to end this scandal with Big Bang since, as put by the author of the appeal, ''"it makes all astronomers look like idiots"'', but the lobby of [[relativists]] turned out to be stronger, and Carl Sagan didn't know that the Big Bang is a fake.</ref> and a hypothesis that the universe is expanding. | Astrophysicists never even calculated how much of ''[[intrinsic redshift]]'' there is in the universe before jumping to conclusion that the universe is expanding. Had they calculated, or asked somebody who knows high school calculus, they would have avoided the embarrassment<ref>I've seen an appeal of an astronomer to Carl Sagan to end this scandal with Big Bang since, as put by the author of the appeal, ''"it makes all astronomers look like idiots"'', but the lobby of [[relativists]] turned out to be stronger, and Carl Sagan didn't know that the Big Bang is a fake.</ref> and a hypothesis that the universe is expanding. |