HI Billy, Interesting, though I worry the journalism may not do justice to the science. It is quite possible the current inflationary big bang theory is flawed. On the other hand, I strongly doubt we're going back all the way to a Steady State model of the cosmos, given all the other evidence that the universe is decaying over time.
-- Ernie P. On Apr 5, 2010, at 11:49 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Times of India > > Indian, US scientists question Big Bang theory > > IANS, Apr 5, 2010, 09.59am IST > > NEW DELHI: An Indian and an American scientist have questioned the Big Bang > theory, saying it does not serve as a viable explanation for the origin of > the universe. > > The research papers of Ashwini Kumar Lal of India's Ministry of Statistics > and Programme Implementation and Rhawn Joseph of Northern California's Brain > Research Laboratory have been accepted for publication in the April issue of > the peer-reviewed Harvard journal, Journal of Cosmology. > > The research papers come even as scientists at Geneva's European Organization > for Nuclear Research (CERN) are in the midst of experiments on the Large > Hadron Collider (LHC) recreating conditions of the beginning of the universe. > > "The two scientific papers cast shadows of suspicion over the efficacy of the > Big Bang model. The scientific community may have to ponder afresh over the > issue relating to the origin of the universe," Lal told IANS here. > > He also noted that CERN scientists "are trying to jigsaw a theory which fits > the conditions of the Big Bang model". > > "The Big Bang is said to have occurred 13.75 billion years. But there is > evidence, as I have written in my paper, that there were fully formed distant > galaxies that must have already been billions of years old at the time," he > added. > > In his paper "Big Bang? A Critical Review", Lal says: "There is a growing > body of evidence which demonstrates the Universe could not have begun with a > Big Bang 13.75 billion years ago. > > "Indeed, the day may come when it is determined there never was a Big Bang > and cosmologists of the future will only gaze back in wonder at how anyone > could have believed in a creation event which was refuted by so much > contradictory evidence," he adds. > > According to the paper, one of the "acid tests" relating to the validity of > the Big Bang model is the "detection of remnants of gravity waves from the > earliest epoch of the universe. > > "Existence of gravitational wave background, as predicted by Einstein in 1916 > in his general theory of relativity, is expected from the violent early > moments of the Big Bang much like the cosmic microwave background that fills > the sky with radio waves from the early universe," Lal says. > > While the microwave background presumably originated 380,000 years after the > Big Bang, the gravitational wave background purportedly comes directly from > events in the first minute after the Big Bang, the scientist says. > > "The cataclysmic Big Bang is believed to have created a flood of > gravitational waves; ripples in the fabric of space-time. These gravitational > waves should still fill the universe. > > "However, presumably they are at a very feeble strength and cannot be > detected by conventional astronomical tools. Nevertheless, they should carry > information about the universe as it was in the immediate aftermath of the > Big Bang. > > "If these waves cannot be detected, this challenges the Big Bang," Lal > maintains. > > He also points out that lots of metal has been detected in distant quasars > and galaxies, "and if distance is related to age, this means that many of the > oldest, most distant galaxies are metal rich; and this defies the predictions > of the Big Bang". > > This means there are "fully formed distant galaxies that must have already > been billions of years old over 13 billion years ago, which would make them > older than the Big Bang", Lal contends. > > Lal closely studied 38 research works in the areas of astrophysics, physics > and cosmology before writing his paper. This is his third paper on the > subject to be published in a foreign journal. The others are Origin of Life > (Astrophysics and Space Science, October 2008) and Searching for Life on > Habitable Planets and Moons (Journal of Cosmology, February 2010). He also > has to his credit some 30 research papers published in Indian journals > _______________________________________________ > Centroids mailing list: [email protected] > http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com > Archives at > http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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