Current Research
Verschuur is at the center of a recent debate over the age of the universe. He claims that images from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) are not pictures of the universe in its early form, but rather hydrogen gas clouds in our own galaxy. If he is shown to be correct, much work relating to the Big Bang Theory would be undermined.
On December 10, 2007 his work with respect to COBE, WMAP, and HI, was published in The Astrophysical Journal. It is currently undergoing deeper statistical analysis.
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