From the New Statesman: To support Minkowski’s proposal, a 2014 paper published in arXiv, says the universe had no beginning and will have no end (a “block universe”), according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory general relativity. The model also helps solve the problem of dark matter and Read More…
Big Bang
Physicist: Naturalist atheists have more reason to hate the Big Bang than Young Earth Creationists do
From Rob Sheldon: The ideas of the Big Bang theory have been resisted by astronomers and cosmologists for decades if not millennia. Plato was against, Augustine was for a creation event. In modern times, the initial idea was put forward by a Belgian priest, Fr Georges Lemaitre in about 1927. Albert Einstein hated the idea, Read More…
Podcasts: Physicist John Bloom on the Big Bang, fine-tuning of the universe, and design-friendly views in physics
The Big Bang and fine-tuning are not challenged fr lack of evidence but because they are unpopular evidence.
About that quantum equation that shows the universe has no beginning…
Sheldon: If this is the future of peer-reviewed physics, we are in deep trouble.
Physicist Rob Sheldon on a cosmologist’s recent claim that there were two Big Bangs
Planck data simply haven’t provided much support for these no-Bang, two-Bang, everywhere-a-bang bang universes.
Physicist Rob Sheldon on the Rosetta/Rosina experiment
Sheldon: In any case, the many recent comet missions are going to provoke a reanalysis of the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis paradigm
Questions About the Accretion Model of Planet Formation
The most common explanation for the formation of planet Earth is that it formed by gravitational collapse from a cloud of particles (gas, ice, dust) swirling around the Sun. Specifically, the idea is that small planetesimals form as the various particles clump together (perhaps initially by cohesion, then by gravity), eventually growing into planets. Known Read More…
Don’t black holes exist? But then what will popular culture do?
Pop culture rants, raves, and peeves have somehow found their expression today as “science.” This stuff doesn’t change; it just acquires science labels.
Vid: Michael Strauss on the origin and design of the universe
He explains why the Big Bang model is best given the current scientific data.
National Geographic on the Big Bang “lithium shortage”
Of course, the Big Bang has never been popular. See Big Bang exterminator wanted, will train.
Big Bang lithium shortage a “hard nut to crack”?
It sounds like a fun problem, actually, dare we say—a lighter moment?
Rob Sheldon on whether we have the Big Bang theory all wrong
First, cosmologists have been trying to falsify the Big Bang for decades. Many do not like it because of its theistic implications.
Could doubts about the recent Big Bang find kill cosmic inflation theory?
Most likely nothing will kill cosmic inflation theory. Nothing will kill multiverse theory. And nothing will kill the vampire.
Can physics tell us if time had a beginning?
But if time is infinite in the past, doesn’t that violate Hilbert’s Hotel? In which case, logic will tell us if physics doesn’t?
Did time’s arrow originate in a quantum source?
The researchers’ thesis does not, however, account for the Big Bang. That’s a biggie, so to speak.