Steady State Theory????

Question

What is the proof it is true and meaning of STEADY STATE THEORY?

Answer 1

This theory dies in the late 1960's. It said that as the universe expanded, new hydrogen was created to keep the density the same in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_state_theory

Answer 2

The first credible theory of creation was the Primordal Atom theory postulated in the 1930s iby a Physicist and Astronomer who was a Catholic Priest. That theory, which had some postulatations about stars and galaxies moving away from each other and background gamma radiation from the initial burst of Atom. The theory, however, bothered lots of scientists because it resembled the Biblical Gensis too much and further came from a Catholic Priest, so other scientists started looking for other theories with more rational explanations.

Hoyle and another cosmologist, came up with steady state and when people would ask about the other theories he termed it "Big Bang" as a joke.

Hoyle, et al, theory of Steady State was widely accepted between 1940 and 1960 but, as pointed out by another here, the comsic (gamma) radiation was found at what they thought was the outer edge of the universe, plus Hubble had extablished that stars and galaxies were moving away from each other and sometimes at great speeds. This was determined by spectral shifts (the doppler effect on light in which light shifts color based on the direction of movement to or from you).

Hence with POSTULATED events fortold by that Catholic Priest's theory now established and nothing established for Steady State, "Big Bang" became the theory of choice, but it is possible other theories can be postulated with other proofs in the future.

This doesn't disprove Steady State either, it's simply a matter of Big Bang now having some predicted credbility and Steady State NOT have any preditable credibility.

Answer 3

Steady State Theory comes from the fact that people believe the univese is/was/always will be constant. Even Einstein put a 'Cosmological Constant' into his general theory of relatvity to take account of it. [without it, general relativity predicted an expanding universe. Within 15 years, Edwin Hubble had shown that the universe was expanding and Einstein said D'oh.]

There are so many reasons why steady state theory should never have been considered and many more for why it should have been discarded long before it ever was.

The bottom line [I hate that phrase] is that a perfectly balanced universe is so difficult to achieve. It needs a perfect mass balance. Now since stars destroy mass to make energy E=mc^2, Einstein should never have been suckerd by it but he was.
How can you make the unverse lighter but keep everything in balance?
Have stuff created from nothing [white holes, wahey]

Except nobody ever saw a white hole. Silly idea.

But ultimately, the real reason wy Steady State theory should have been given a boot to the head is Fred Hoyle. If you want an exciting Sci-Fi film based on rubbish pseudo-science, he's your man but just about everything he's ever said is pap.

I'll say it again. He needs a boot to the head. His ideas are beyond outlandish but the press love it and scientists end up having to waste time and money proving the guy's a quack simply because 'proper science' gets it wrong so often too.

If you think people have stopped listening to him just because he died in 2001, think again. The whole idea that life is delivered to planets by comets comes from him. Just because amino acids were discovered on a meteorite in 1969 within 3 months of him suggesting comets seed planets [co-incidence] we've been subject to 40 years of silliness.

Put steady state theory out of your mind and blame Fred Hoyle for confusing you and the press for...well just about everything else.

Answer 4

It's a theory. There is no proof. When something is proved it is no longer a theory. In the case of Fred Hoyle's steady state theory, the evidence is the other way so it has been abandoned.

Hoyle accounted for the expansion of the Universe by proposing that a vey small amount of matter was being continuously created. This amounted to something like one hydrogen atom per cubic light year per year, or maybe less.

Persistent noise in a microwave receiver at Bell Labs in the early 60s was eventually identified as the cosmic microwave background and corresponded to a temperature of a degree or so above absolute zero, This was consistent with the big bang theory (derisively named so by Hoyle) but no his steady state or continuous creation ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_state_theory

Answer 5

Steady state was officially dead in the 70's. The theory stated that the universe was not expanding but in a "steady" or non moving position. Hubble was the first to say the universe was expanding but it was proven out when scientists discovered the cosmic background radiation.

BTW, they still taught this theory up until the late 1970's in schools.