Re: Lerner's hypothesis

[Stupendous Man <richmond@a188-l009.rit.edu>]

  Rich Knowles wrote:

> Something only slightly tangential, I'm reading "The Big Bang
> Never Happened" by Eric Lerner, ...
>  ... The point being that there is less area
> as you get closer to the observer, and conversely, as you drop
> away a couple LY, there is much more spatial area from which
> light emitters exist, therefore biasing measurements towards
> a particular spectral weighting. 

  I know of no evidence for spatial curvature on scales of a few light years.
There are measurements which are explained by spatial curvature, but only
on scales of hundreds of megaparcsecs or more.

                                             Michael Richmond