KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA (11/09/85)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA>
Date: Sun 3 Nov 85 02:23:09-PST
From: Roger Crew <CREW@SU-SUSHI.ARPA>
One of the discoveries that accompanied that of the 3-degree
background radiation ... was the fact that there is a measureable doppler
shift in this radiation. That is, it is possible to measure the
velocity of the earth with respect to the ``primordial fireball.'' ...
None of this saves Gregory Benford, however, since the 3-degree
radiation wasn't discovered until 1967; his physicist at UCwherever
in 1962 wouldn't have known anything about it....
UCLJ (later UCSD). He makes it clear that he is talking about the
'solar apex', the point towards which our solar system is traveling
*relative to the center of this galaxy*. This was understood in 1962.
...Keith