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Saying goodbye to the Big Bang, By ERIC LERNER, SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The prevailing story of our universe is starting to unravel

The Big Bang theory asserts (among other things) that our universe was born in a gigantic explosion 13.8 billion years ago. The Big Bang is one of the most stubborn dogmas in science today. Thousands of scientific papers, textbooks, popular books and articles have treated the Big Bang theory as if it were essentially a proven fact.

The opposite is the case. In an exclusive four-part November 2020 interview with Asia Times under the banner “The Big Bang never happened,” the well-known astrophysicist and plasma physicist Eric Lerner revealed how the Big Bang theory is contradicted by an overwhelming mass of astronomical evidence – evidence that is constantly accumulating – while mainstream cosmologists continue to twist and turn in attempts to save the theory and discredit its critics.

The Big Bang theory’s predictions have been reliably wrong for decades:

wrong about the cosmic microwave background, it’s temperature and smoothness;

wrong about the scale of the largest structures in the universe;

wrong about the abundance of lithium and helium;

wrong about the size, age and brightness of distant galaxies.

“The Naked Emperor”, stencil graffiti by Edward von Lõngus. Photo: Wikimedia

Instead of abandoning the theory, cosmologists have modified it many times, as Frank and Geisel correctly point out, to fit (as precisely as the Emperor’s New Clothes) what has already been observed and to smooth over previous contradictions.

Over 30 year’s ago Sky and Telescope published an essay of mine titled “The Cosmologists’ New Clothes.” Unfortunately, the “emperors’ new clothes effect” is still strong in cosmology.

As I wrote then, a highly centralized structure for funding cosmology research and a tight competition for such funds ensured that if you wrote that the Big Bang did not happen, or if you even raised doubts about that, then you were deemed “either stupid or not fit for your job” and you wouldn’t get any funding.

https://asiatimes.com/2023/09/saying-goodbye-to-the-big-bang/