Astronomers using the giant 10 meter Keck telescope
  have made the most precise measurement to date of the
  amount of deuterium, or heavy hydrogen, in the universe.
  This finding provides a stringent constraint on the Big
  Bang theory for the origin of the universe.
 
  Led by David Tytler of the University of California, San
  Diego, a team of six astronomers observed absorption 
  lines in light from a quasar. Specific wavelengths
  of the quasar light were absorbed by various types of
  atoms in an intervening, and very distant intergalactic
  cloud. They determined that the cloud contained about 
  one deuterium atom for every 40,000 normal hydrogen 
  atoms.

  This number, which is consistent with other independent
  measurements, gives the team confidence that they and 
  other scientists are closing in on one of the most 
  important pieces of evidence for proving the Big Bang 
  theory.

  "According to the theory, primordial deuterium was 
  created by nuclear reactions in the first one thousand
  seconds of the Big Bang," explained Tytler. "The amount
  depends sensitively on the number of protons and neutrons
  present, so if we measure the deuterium, we can determine
  how many protons, and therefore how much matter is
  present in the universe."

  The team involved in this research also included David Kirkman,
  Nao Suzuki, Dan Lubin and Arthur Wolfe of UCSD's Center for
  Astrophysics and Space Sciences, and Jason Prochaska of the
  Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. Some of
  the observations were also made with the Shane 3 meter
  telescope at the Lick Observatory.

  COSMOLOGY
  San Diego - May 16, 2001
  http://www.spacedaily.com/news/cosmology-01c.html

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   "Perceptions" note: see
   "Greatest Discoveries" at
   http://www.perceptions.couk.com/greatest.html#tinsley

   Establishment science doesn't mention most
   obvious and important conclusion - that the figure for
   deuterium merely confirms that found by Beatrice Tinsley
   and team, who published news of the 'open universe' in
   1974 - against the wishes of "Nature" and the "Big Science"
   establishment.

   For some reason the elites - social/financial/church
   don't want people to know the Universe is expanding
   forever and that we're all on "the Long Journey" 

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