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.
Great stuff. Thanks. I am into Seeing Red (found through your page) and loving it. Also where are the rest of the comments? Surely we cannot be the only two doubting epistemologists around?
Thanks David. It is admittedly an esoteric topic and as with Rona, with the unrelenting propaganda most people just give up and say 'fine, don't understand what they are saying, must be true'. In reading Hawking's work and many other sales material from the Bangers, you get the impression of a used car salesman discussing enormous details of esoterics unrelated to the big questions of how and why, how old, how many miles, how reliable, is it maintained, why should I buy it? Einstein was against the Bangers inflation until he became acquainted with Hubble's work and Hubble as we all know, never said that cosmic inflation proved anything. In fact he said that Redshifting was often not visible and far weaker than expected and anyway, many 'theories' can explain a Red or Blue shift but they are never pursued. Big $cience and Big Government are only good at a few things, and one is certainly, propaganda.
At some point I'd like to really get into this and understand it. There was a chapter in a book by Liam Schiff on something like 'an electric based' universe. I got a kick out of it. After all the models that suggest an inevitable heat death of the entire universe are depressing. Hearing about possible alternative explanations is welcome. Not that I'd have an idea how to assess what is plausible. One point that stuck out that Schiff made was that wouldn't it be funny that the force our scientists just came to some grips with, Gravity, was the organizing principle of all existence. Or is that indicative that perhaps we've jumped the gun a bit. In his chapter he points out electricity came into vogue later. If we had better grips of magnetism and electricity before modeling the universe would the model have turned out vastly different?
I think you are right. The reigning paradigm was declared (by Newton) to be gravity. But there is plenty wrong with the idea - it is a very weak force to start with. To compensate and balance their models the Bangers came up with 'dark matter' (first mooted in the 70s and 80s). But no one knows what it is (plasma? nothing?). Alternative non Banging theories (Electro-magnetism, Alp, Van Flanderen etc) don't need Dark Matter to explain the universe (tthe last 2 are constant models, ie back to Einstein's original flat disk model). Electro-magnetism is far simpler to explain what we observe ie not what lies in a Banger's model or equation. Also as Einstein said, there is a massive difference between Earth time and Cosmic time given the space-time curve and the dilation of time. Bangers ignore this - but that by itself invalidates most of their claims, ie. we have 2 different time scales and Earth time is not cosmic time. Other models have no problem with describing this and what it means for humans and our own time frame of existence.
I believe in One Bang
The Big Bang
The maker of heaven and earth
The maker of all things seen and unseen
Great stuff. Thanks. I am into Seeing Red (found through your page) and loving it. Also where are the rest of the comments? Surely we cannot be the only two doubting epistemologists around?
Thanks David. It is admittedly an esoteric topic and as with Rona, with the unrelenting propaganda most people just give up and say 'fine, don't understand what they are saying, must be true'. In reading Hawking's work and many other sales material from the Bangers, you get the impression of a used car salesman discussing enormous details of esoterics unrelated to the big questions of how and why, how old, how many miles, how reliable, is it maintained, why should I buy it? Einstein was against the Bangers inflation until he became acquainted with Hubble's work and Hubble as we all know, never said that cosmic inflation proved anything. In fact he said that Redshifting was often not visible and far weaker than expected and anyway, many 'theories' can explain a Red or Blue shift but they are never pursued. Big $cience and Big Government are only good at a few things, and one is certainly, propaganda.
At some point I'd like to really get into this and understand it. There was a chapter in a book by Liam Schiff on something like 'an electric based' universe. I got a kick out of it. After all the models that suggest an inevitable heat death of the entire universe are depressing. Hearing about possible alternative explanations is welcome. Not that I'd have an idea how to assess what is plausible. One point that stuck out that Schiff made was that wouldn't it be funny that the force our scientists just came to some grips with, Gravity, was the organizing principle of all existence. Or is that indicative that perhaps we've jumped the gun a bit. In his chapter he points out electricity came into vogue later. If we had better grips of magnetism and electricity before modeling the universe would the model have turned out vastly different?
I think you are right. The reigning paradigm was declared (by Newton) to be gravity. But there is plenty wrong with the idea - it is a very weak force to start with. To compensate and balance their models the Bangers came up with 'dark matter' (first mooted in the 70s and 80s). But no one knows what it is (plasma? nothing?). Alternative non Banging theories (Electro-magnetism, Alp, Van Flanderen etc) don't need Dark Matter to explain the universe (tthe last 2 are constant models, ie back to Einstein's original flat disk model). Electro-magnetism is far simpler to explain what we observe ie not what lies in a Banger's model or equation. Also as Einstein said, there is a massive difference between Earth time and Cosmic time given the space-time curve and the dilation of time. Bangers ignore this - but that by itself invalidates most of their claims, ie. we have 2 different time scales and Earth time is not cosmic time. Other models have no problem with describing this and what it means for humans and our own time frame of existence.