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Iceball universe avoids Big Bang?

Further to an interesting idea that “Life originated only fifteen million years after the Big Bang?,” efforts continue to try to reorganized science around "The Big Bang never happened.” Read More ›

Is Earth the center of the universe or are quasar redshift groupings the product of chance?

It is amusing to note that the way many scientists promote a novel theory is to argue that their theory is true because the alternative is to accept the hypothesis that the Earth is in a very privileged position in the universe. For those bored with my rejection of the chance hypothesis in 500 fair coins being heads, here is a far more technical question as to whether chance can create clustering of redshifts by quasars. If quasar redshift grouping is not the product of chance, this implies either the Earth is in a privileged position (which has all sorts of unacceptable metaphysical implications to materialists), or quasar redshifts are not due to expanding space of the Big Bang, or Read More ›