‘The Big Bang’ and $cientism. Confusion, bafflegab, arcane maths, money. Part one: Radiation

A theory with so many issues would long ago have been shut down. But not the massive military-industrial complex of the Bang Religion and its $cientism.

(First post on this topic, outlining why the BB contradicts the laws of thermodynamics, core issues with Newtonian and Einsteinian theories; general issues with the BB theology including ‘redshifting’; and the fact that the cult will not discuss alternative theories including electromagnetism is here)

The Big Bang cult with its endless propaganda and story-telling demands that the hoi-polloi fall to their knees and pray to the golden calf idol of ‘the science’.  We are to be amazed at the complex equations, maths and superstar promoters called ‘scientists’ with their theories and voice overs on documentaries which ‘prove’ that nothing created everything and it is still expanding!  ‘Consensus science’, ‘experts’, ‘various observations’, ‘even Einstein agreed’, are all trotted out.  The Bangers in imitation of ancient paganisms have even carved out their own commandments and their deities in stone (quite literally in New York City’s Teddy Roosevelt Memorial Park which chisels Nobel Prize winners in Physics into a stone column, with worship, goat offerings, and prostration in front of this stone encouraged). 

It is a cult

If you object to the Banging religion using common sense, or even use normative and logical data analysis, or pose difficult questions about their assumptions, you are branded mentally unfit.  Further you are told you are ‘not a scientist’, you don’t have a PhD in Physics (nor did Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Hubble, Einstein or many others), and you are not ‘an expert’ and therefore have no valid offering.  You might even be traditionally religious (only the pagan religion of $cience is acceptable) and therefore utterly idiotic. 

We can surmise that Aristarchus (310 BC to 230 BC) who first wrote about the elliptical orbit of the Earth around the Sun, and the Earth’s daily rotation on an axial tilt, was just another ‘conspiracy theorist’.  So too the 16^th century Catholic Copernicus who resurrected Aristarchus’ theory and provided mathematical-algebraic formulations to support it.  Neither had a Pretty Happy Dude degree and both were religious albeit quite differently.  They are two of the rather endless list of the religious and the Christian, building the edifices of science and mathematics.

Money for Banging

The Big Bang religion is a massive industry.  It ‘irrupted from nothing’ and through magical forces endlessly driven by ‘dark energy’ has become a U$25 billion p.a. industry worldwide.  Such a huge industry has its own ‘gravitational pull’ and ‘attractions’.  Its ‘quantum fluctuations’ has resulted in yet another government-university mafia-complex, akin to the Climate fraud which can be found in U Penn, East Anglia and hundreds of other corrupted ‘universities’ and institutions. 

For Bangers the locus of money is Cambridge, Oxford, Sussex, the Carnegie Institution in Washington, Princeton, UPenn, Berkely, MIT amongst many others; along with sundry observatories (Mount Wilson is prominent amongst many).  In this regulated and extraordinarily well-funded market called ‘physics and cosmology’, the Big Bang rules as gospel.  No one will be funded, financed, hired, or tolerated if they offer dissent or dare to challenge Big Bang infallibility.  All the journals and scientific media are owned or funded by the Bangers.  Archbishop’s such as de Grasse or Cox will have you burnt at the stake or retired to a monastery if you challenge the orthodoxy, as they enjoy their tithes and plunder.  Big Bang infallibility is canonical law in the Church of $cientism.

Forked Tongues

The Big Bang theology is suffused with arcana, complex yet unsupported maths, promoted by supposed ‘geniuses’, who talk in a different tongue, with endless institutional and media support.  There is not a lot of difference in methods, quackery and fraud between the Big Bang, Vaccines and Scamdemics, and the Climate Bollocks.  Besides charlatanism, money and power, the overarching goals of these related religions are similar – the teleological conclusion that the human is nothing of importance and can be rendered powerless, mute, and helpless, making it easier to manipulate, corral and cull. 

Photons, Shrew and You

If the Universe is 13.7 billion years in age (some say 15 billion), and was created from nothing and you are just star dust; there is no need for religion, faith, spirituality or even morality.  The only possible religion would be ‘science’.  Further, only ‘rationalism’ and the need to fill in the gaps and find answers to outstanding questions about the universe and origins, is what separates modern man from the deluded and fanatical medieval and ancients.  With this rationalist view the human is simply an ‘evolved’ combination of elements and matter related to fish and shrews.  You and your brain, body, consciousness, complexity and perfect design are unimportant, venal, and in fact, a ridiculous accident. 

10 Easy Steps

The Bangers state that there are ’10 easy steps’ from nothing to you.  Easy steps they say.  Your 70 trillion cells are simple, easy to design, build, test and implement.  No issues.  Inevitable.  Just sprinkle in endless time and ‘dark energy’ and ‘dark matter’.  Presto.

1.     13.7 billion years ago (quite precise), a Cosmic egg with all the matter in the universe erupted in a virgin birth or from a ‘singularity of energy’

2.     Post egg-eruption, there was a massive acceleration for some period of time, and intense heat was emitted

3.     Hydrogen, Helium formed in this initial phase, and for 300.000 years (very precise) no light was present due to excessive heat

4.     After 380,000 years (very precise), all matter cooled, electrons combined with nuclei (how were these formed?) to create neutral atoms ("recombination", very sciency word), this ‘absorption of free electrons’ generated light

5.     400 million years later (less precise) ‘reionisation’ occurred (how, why), galaxies ‘clumped’ together and formed, emitting ultra-violet light which ‘cleared out’ the hydrogen gas

6.     Over the endless billions of years, more stars, more galaxies formed in their billions if not trillions

7.     Our solar system ‘formed’ from solar nebula and gravity, some 9 billion years ago, with our milky way galaxy positioned some 25.000 light years from the ‘galactic core’ (a light year is purportedly 5.9 Trillion miles…)

8.     In the 1920s Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding more slowly today than in the past (was he there 13 billion years ago?), which surprised the Bangers, so ‘Dark Energy’ was invented to explain outward expansion and declining acceleration

9.     In the 1970s Vera Rubin discovered ‘dark matter’ fixing Newton’s errors, and providing a constant to make Banger equations balance, the dark matter allows the velocities of stars to be similar in their rotation around the centre of the galaxy (a fact she observed which contravenes Newton’s laws)

10. Somehow the multi-layered atmosphere of the Earth with its water, elements, minerals, oxygen along with the complexity of life and functionality was created 4.6 billion years ago (Darwin picks up the story here, soupy pond, DNA, RNA, formations, panspermia, some lightning etc); Bangers are quiet about the origins of the Earth, life, flora and fauna

Ten simple steps for the Church of the Big Banging, though some niggling problems related to reality and common sense do persist.

From Science.com

(Dark Matter) This mysterious and invisible mass became known as dark matter. Dark matter is inferred because of the gravitational pull it exerts on regular matter. One hypothesis states the mysterious stuff could be formed by exotic particles that don't interact with light or regular matter, which is why it has been so difficult to detect.

Dark energy is thought to be the strange force that is pulling the cosmos apart at ever-increasing speeds, but it remains undetected and shrouded in mystery. The existence of this elusive energy, which is thought to make up 80% of the universe, is one of the most hotly debated topics in cosmology.

Well, there we have ‘the science’.  Strange matter, dark forces, shrouded mysteries, observations based on a light spectrum calculation (another article on that fraud coming), from nothing to everything, all declared as scientific from a small cadre of well paid ‘researchers’ who get compensated, feted, prized, and adored, with names chiselled into stone if they win a Nobel.  One cannot possibly imagine any deadly sins getting in the way of ‘the science’. 

The 2 Foundational Banger beliefs

You won’t find much if anything online which opposes the Banger religion.  They control the narrative and media.  But there is plenty wrong with the idea.  You don’t need to be ‘the science’ to go through ten ‘ten steps’ above and rip it apart.  There are some obvious objections, without delving into science jargon. 

The Bangers claim 2 observations which supports their theology.

1-Cosmic Background Radiation (termed Cosmic Microwave Background or CMB)

2-Redshift Spectrum (separate article as part 2 on this, introduction on this here)

Both are wrong.  There is a 120-year history in the development of the Big Bang religion.  I will eschew the history, actors, and their various ‘discoveries’ to arrive at the nexus of their gospel.  As with the Bible, the Holy Books of the Big Bang need scrutiny and analysis, and in particular the two foundation stones of their belief system. 

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)

In steps 2 and 3 above, cosmic background radiation was generated (the Bangers never explain how radiation is created from nothing, as if my dentist’s x-ray machine appeared ex-nihilo, fully formed).  First and foremost, for the Bangers, they must find in space, evidence of a signature blackbody radiation spectrum (the Planck radiation spectrum, a physical ‘law’ or in simple terms the spectrum of light emitted by a heated object eg. your radiator), which is the ‘relic’ radiation or umbilical cord from the virgin birth.  

CMB is defined by Space.com as:

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is leftover radiation from the Big Bang or the time when the universe began. As the theory goes, when the universe was born it underwent rapid inflation, expansion and cooling. (The universe is still expanding today, and the expansion rate appears different depending on where you look). The CMB represents the heat leftover from the Big Bang.

As will be discussed below, we have problems with CMB already. First rapid inflation has never been proven. Second why the cooling and how much cooling occurred, or how do they know what the original temperature was 13.7 billion years ago? Third, the universe gives off radiation every second. The Bangers do not reasonably prove they can disentangle the virgin birth’s radiation, or ‘blackbody radiation’ from what is currently produced.

Finally just from the above definition, the Bang religion maintains that the expansion rate is a constant and is related to ‘Dark Energy’ and ‘Dark Matter’ and their interactions. However as I wrote in another article, no one knows what this means and no one knows what caused the ‘acceleration’ especially of enormous galaxies and their masses (other than magic).

Bangers, Mash and radiation

For the BB theory to work the CMB radiation spectrum must be not only quantitatively proven, but also qualitatively confirmed, with a perfect curve in space (similar to waves in a pond arcing out from the shore) in order to satisfy the Bangers calculations. 

Second and of equal importance, the Bangers need to prove that cosmic background radiation illustrates the origins of the universe, or ‘the baby universe’ in Banger liturgy, especially galaxy-clumping (a sonogram for a baby), and proto-galaxies (or the birthing of galaxies).  When viewed spatially, the Bangers expect the Universe to appear as patchy cirrus clouds (due to isotropy, or the same properties being emitted in every direction), informed by the relic radiation. 

These are the 2 demands within cosmic background radiation or CMB, that need to be proven.  By the 1970s through efforts of just a handful of people (quite literally perhaps a dozen), and their observations, the Bangers had declared victory and there was a ‘consensus’ that both of the above fundaments were indeed explained and proven.  About 20 years ago they proffered more proof of their theories through the COBE 2 satellite and BICEP 2 programs.  Let’s put aside the actors and the details of their ‘discoveries’ for now, the problems with the instruments, antennas, satellites and data, all of which exist and impugn the ‘discoveries’; and focus on the bigger picture.

CMB and its discontents

In general, we can say that two things would falsify the Big Bang religion:  1-if the blackbody radiation spectrum is not found and 2-if the CMB possesses a spectrum that is substantially different from a blackbody. 

The observations performed by the Bangers to confirm these two points, widely applauded by the media and Nobel committees, was in fact fraudulent (from the 1920s to the COBE Satellite and BICEP2 program and its revealed fraud).  As teams from Oxford and Princeton pointed out, galactic dust would cause CMB ‘polarisation’ and no gravitational waves have been discovered.  Planck scientists have found no evidence of the blackbody radiation at all, in complete contradistinction to what we are told in the mass media.  Just based on this the Big Bang can be declared defunct.

Besides the above there are many other issues using the Bangers own data, which do not conform to the Banging model.  These include:

1.     Uniformity of CMB, even though required by the Bangers, requires all points within the supposed primeval fireball to be characterized by the same temperature.  This is factually incorrect and implausible (start a fireball and do the experiment yourself)

2.     If the Cosmic egg explosion was supposedly undirected and purposeless, this would necessitate very unlikely initial conditions which have never been proven to exist and would contravene ‘natural laws’ as we understand them

3.     Even the 13.7 +/- billion years allowed by the Big Bang model is not enough time for the radiation process to completely equalize the CMB everywhere in the universe. This is known as the horizon problem.  (Source)  To solve this, the Bangers invented the huge growth spurt, post the virgin birth (how, why?). 

4.     No direct evidence exists for the ‘growth spurt’ theory.  None.

5.     Bangers believe that the CMB is premised on isotropy (same values emitted in all directions).  Yet there are huge, large-scale anisotropies across space, which contradicts Banger theology.

6.     Banger isotropy modelling does not allow for temperature differences in space which is calculated at 2.7 Kelvins, however there are large temperature differences as evidenced by the Planck data which also shows that subtle large-scale features in the CMB are present, features that are not supposed to exist if inflation is correct

Inflation and Structure?

The key element for Bangers is ‘inflation’. But from what, how and what is ‘dark energy’ as the impetus? Why structure from an inflating force? No one knows.

George Efstathiou, a Cambridge astrophysicist and a leader of the Planck satellite’s science team, explained in an interview in 2013:

The theory of inflation predicts that today’s universe should appear uniform at the largest scales in all directions....That uniformity should also characterize the distribution of fluctuations at the largest scales within the CMB. But these anomalies, which Planck confirmed, such as the cold spot, suggest that this isn’t the case....This is very strange....And I think that if there really is anything to this, you have to question how that fits in with inflation....It’s really puzzling.

George is baffled.  So too is a well-known Big Banger, Lawrence Krauss, who complained about points 5 and 6 above in 2018.  Remember directions of radiation should not exist at all, they must conform to the quantitative and qualitative assumptions of the religion:

But when you look at CMB map, you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That’s crazy. We’re looking at the whole universe. There’s no way there should be a correlation of structure with our motion of the earth around the sun—the plane of the earth around the sun—the ecliptic. That would say we are truly the centre of the universe.

Even the Bangers argue amongst themselves.  Schismatics.

Radiation?

If we view many of the problems with C14 carbon dating based on C14’s ever changing half-life (5.000 to 55.000 years) and associated radioactive decay, we observe that radiation, including C14 is being produced all the time.  We have daily cosmic and solar radiation production.  This means that for C14 ‘dating’ the underlying denominator constant is never stable and always changing.  It completely nullifies the calculation.  This is one of many objections to C14 dating which is rarely discussed.  This simple layman’s observation can be applied to the Big Bang Church.

How can the Bangers disentangle cosmic radiation occurring naturally, versus the virgin birth’s placenta radiation?  The short answer is they can’t.  The longer answer is usually framed in arcana which cannot be verified and includes from any internet search on the topic the following:

·       As the Universe cooled photons get absorbed and re-emitted by matter. This reduces the energy of the photons and the wavelength increases (where is the proof of this process back 13 billion years ago?)

·       The Universe has always been filled with photons from the Big Bang (proof is?)

·       The CMB energy is measured as a temperature. Soon after the big bang the temperature was millions of degrees (proof is?)

·       As time progressed the energy and hence temperature of the CMB dropped (proof?). It is now about 2.725K (2.7 Kelvin) which is close to absolute zero (as written above this is wrong, so we went from very hot to cool? how?)

·       The CMB is everywhere and if you can see in the microwave frequency range, which some instruments can do, the whole Universe appears very bright in all directions (how would light and energy last 9 billion years, proof is?)

All hand-waving and conjecture.  Not a single experiment confirms any of the above.  Just observational data, massaged, manipulated and ‘measured’.

Back in reality, one reason we cannot possibly fly to the moon or anywhere else is solar and cosmic radiation.  Trying to untangle a purported ‘explosion’ and its ‘radiation’ umbilic from 13.7 billion years ago, with what is being produced by Stars and galaxies today is nigh impossible in reality.  The Bangers do not offer convincing evidence that the CMB is different than what would be expected using alternative theories of universe formation.

Bottom Line

Given the list of objections outlined, it is clear the Banging Religion is a very tenuous theory, disproven by its own observations, yet it marches on triumphant given the massive industry it has created for itself, and the prestige it has accorded its efforts.  But in reality, it is mostly bunk.  As Scientific American sadly observed in 2018:

(Does the Big Bang explain) The degree to which space is curved and warped? The amount of matter, or other forms of energy, that makes up the current universe? The answer is no. Inflation is such a flexible idea that any outcome is possible. Does inflation tell us why the big bang happened or how the initial patch of space was created that eventually evolved into the universe observed today? The answer, again, is no.

So, there you have it.  A theory that has no observational evidence, cannot explain much, but is the settled $cientism of the day and as with any $cientism, no alternative theories or ideas are allowed to be discussed.  As the ‘Enlightenment’ has taught ‘modern science’, there can be only One explanation.

Next up, a look at the ‘Redshift’ nonsense, the 2^nd ‘proof’ of the Banging religion.

The Author

Who dares to write the above?  Just another lay person with 20 years reading about the Big Banging religion from both sides.  Scientifically trained, an IT subject matter expert in system development, data, statistical analysis and data integrity.  In the real world, and in IT, we always look for source data to be pure, understood and properly stewarded.  If I don’t find this, I know I am dealing with either incompetence or fraud.  In either case, the conclusions or reports are worthless (AI is an example of such fraud).  If you use the data provided by the various cults of $cientism, you will not find single sources of truth, or validated data sets.  The Big Bang Church is an example. You will find many assumptions, employed ‘constants’ to get equations to balance, and as Tesla said, illimitable complexity in equations that are unproven, and that few really understand – if at all.  Yet we are to believe the divine word of this massive industry and its prophets. 

Resources

Banger sales material include:

• "The History of the Universe" by David H. Lyth

• "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking.

• NASA's dedicated webpage  for the James Webb Telescope,

• European Space Agency's dedicated webpage.

Dissidents

• Hannes Alfven a dissident and Nobel Prize Winner

• Fred Hoyle, acclaimed scientist who supposedly lost the debate when CMB was ‘found’

• David Spergel of Princeton, a bold critic of the Banging Religion

• Bibhas De, ‘The Falsifiers of the Universe: Big Bang Cosmology’ based on 20 years of studies, a somewhat excitable but readable if not well organised history of the fraud.