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  • 6 - Standard “textbook” history and its shortcomings

  • from Part II - Discovery of the CMB and current cosmological orthodoxy
  • Slobodan Perovic, University of Belgrade, Milan M. Cirkovic, Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Book:
    The Cosmic Microwave Background
    Published online:
    09 July 2024
    Print publication:
    27 June 2024, pp 28-32

  • Summary

    As the chapter points out, standard cosmology textbooks offer a triumphant account of the Hot Big Bang model as the orthodoxy that was almost instantly accepted with the discovery of the CMB by Penzias and Wilson. Yet this historical account does not reveal the whole story of the orthodoxy’s gradual ascent and the all but forgotten, but at the time important, side roads. We argue that historical analysis must shun the triumphant partial account, but resist eliminating the current understanding as irrelevant for understanding the past. If approached in a balanced manner, the story of the CMB evidence often diverges from the values that unequivocally lent support to the orthodoxy, thus opening the space for alternative interpretations.