There Was No Big Bang

Astrophysicists claim that about 13.8 billion years ago our universe sprang into existence in an enormous cosmic explosion. It was born out of nothing, in a Big Bang, they say. However, just because scientists say something doesn't make it true. In reality, the gigantic cosmic blast never happened. Scientific evidence challenges the Big Bang Theory and upon examination it rises as a well-combed myth: There was no Big Bang. According to the Big Bang theory, space, time, matter and energy were initially squeezed into a tiny, a less than proton-sized dense singularity, which blew up in a colossal firecracker event and thus, asserts the theory, our universe sprang into existence, expanding rapidly in every direction of the cosmos. The idea of a cosmic Big Bang crops up as early as 1848, in Edgar Allan Poe's 40,000 wordprose poem, "Eureka".Here Poe discusses man's relationship to God and describes his intuitive vision of an oscillating universe, wherein creation and destruction follow each other in cycles. However, it was only in the 20th century that the scientific hypothesis of the Big Bang began to assume form. The rise of the Big Bang Theory involved theoretical implications found in Einstein's Theory of Relativity and astronomical research. An important step for the development of the theory was astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovery in the early 1920s that the galaxies in the universe are receding from each other. This led to the conjecture that initially the galaxies were clumped together. Based on Hubble's discovery, Georges Lemaitre in 1927 proposed that the universe was expanding from the "Cosmic Egg" of the primeval atom. Two decades later the physicist George Gamow Proposed that the universe resulted from a Primordial explosion of matter. In 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered a faint radiation coming from space, which they interpreted as evidence confirming the Big Bang. This is celebrated as a landmark scientific discovery. Astronomers claim that in the beginning, at time zero, all the matter, energy, space and time in the universe were packed into aninfinetely dense point, called singularity. Tinier than a proton, this singularity exploded 13.8 billion years ago, they say. Thus, similarly to the Biblical story in Genesis, It is assumed that the Big Bang occurred ex nihilo, which renders it as an astonishing scientific miracle: creation out of nothing. Contrary to the commonly held belief that the Big Bang is a fact, like spider webs and pizza, it is not. The Big Bang Theory is a scientific fantasy. Actually, even a leading science journal, "Nature", in its Editorial of August 1988, titled "Down with the Big Bang", called the theory "unacceptable". One of the leading physicists challenging the Big Bang Theory, Nobel laureate Hannes Alfven, is a pioneer of Plasma Cosmology, who rejects the notion that the origin of the universe begins with a colossal explosion.He suggests that instead of viewing gravity as the dominant shaping force of the Big Bang, the electrically charged gases of cosmic plasma with their electric and magnetic forces, along with gravity, organize matter into stars and galexies. Alfven points out that even if the Hubble expansion of the universe is correct, it does not follow that there was a Big Bang. We still don't know whether the universe is finite or infinite.When we look at Polaris, the North Star, we look at the brightest star at in the constellation of Ursa Minor,434 light years away and ago.Sirius, a binary star system and the brightest star in our night sky, shines 8.6 light years away and ago. These, and countless billions of other stars, represent as Einstein put it, "an aggregate of nonsimultaneous events."We can observe stars in the night sky as energy radiating events although many of them probably don'teven exist by now. From the nonsimultaneous scenario of the cosmos the visionary system theorist Buckminster Fuller drew the conclusion thatthe universe is inherently eternal and it "could not have begun with a Big Bang" It was the distinguished astrophysicists Fred Hoyle who on a BBC radio programme broadcast on March 28,1949, coined the term "Big Bang".However, Hoyle disagreed with the interpretation of the concept of an expanding universe. He saw the idea that the cosmos had a beginning as pseudoscience that invites arguments for a creator. Beginning in 1948, Hoyle sarted to formulate the Steady State Theory of the Universe in collaboration with Thomas Gold and Herman Bondi. As an alternative to the Big Bang, the Steady State Theory envisioned the universe as eternal and essentially unchanging despite galaxies moving away from each other. It assumes that new matter is created all the time in the universe and that the formation of new galaxiesfills up the gaps left behind by those that migrated. The Steady State Theory conjures up the image of a flowing river in which particular water molecules arein constant flux, yet, on the whole, the river itself does not change. It is noteworthy to bear in mind that the idea of a Steady State Universe cannot be refuted by math or science. The origin and evolution of the cosmos involve metaphysical problems, theoretical considerations that transcend the scope and limits of science. Since science fails to explain the mystery of existence the Steady State Theory is no closer to ultimate truths than the Big Bang.Yet, iIn view of the shaky scientific foundation of the latter, its enduring acceptance is quite surprising. Rather than a staunch scientific theory, the Big Bang emerges as a pseudo-scientific myth. Its pivotal flaws include the fact that the theory is supported more by mathematical formulae than solid empirical evidence. In this regard Einstein warns us that the correspondence between the Queen of Sciences, mathematics, and reality does not warrant certainty; whereasRusselldefines mathematics "as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.