MABE: a challenge to Big-Bang Nobel laureates



Domingos Soares

Departamento de Física, ICEx, UFMG -- C.P. 702
30123-970, Belo Horizonte -- Brazil
E-mail: dsoares@fisica.ufmg.br

October 16, 2006


COBE -- the Cosmic Background Explorer -- should have been called, in the first place, EARBE, that is, Earthly Background Explorer. The way it was conceived, even in its name, shows clear preconceptions on its plausible results.

Hence, set up MABE -- the Martian Background Explorer --, a replica of COBE except that placed at a low-altitude Martian orbit, equivalent to COBE's 900-km altitude orbit.

Arm it with replicas of COBE's three instruments, FIRAS, DMR and DIRBE, and measure Martian background radiation and its anisotropies, just like Nobel laureate COBE did on Earth.

Compare MABE's results with COBE's. They may be the same, a plus for the cosmic assumption.

They may be otherwise. Conclude therefrom.

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Read related discussion in "Local Microwave Background Radiation" at http://arXiv.org/abs/physics/0607096.

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Domingos Sávio de Lima Soares
Oct 16 2006