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| | Steady state theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Problems with the steady-state theory began to emerge in the late 1960s, when observations apparently supported the idea that the universe was in fact changing: quasars and radio galaxies were found only at large distances (i.e., redshift, and thus, because of the finiteness of the speed of light, in the past) not in closer galaxies. |
 | | For most cosmologists, the refutation of the steady-state theory came with the discovery of the cosmic background radiation in 1965, which was predicted by the big bang theory. |
 | | At the same time, after the unexpected observation of an accelerating universe in the late-1990s, there were efforts to develop quasi-steady state theories, in which it is said that there is not a single big bang but rather multiple big bangs over time which create matter. |
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