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Nobel-winning cosmologist James Peebles has a bone to pick with the scientific community: he wants the world to stop referring to the earliest moments of our universe as the “Big Bang.”
His main beef, according to Agence France-Presse, is that there’s no good way to test whether such a thing actually happened — cosmologists have evidence of a rapid outward expansion, but not anything as discrete as a singular point that detonated to create everything in the universe.
“It’s very unfortunate that one thinks of the beginning whereas in fact, we have no good theory of such a thing as the beginning,” he told AFP.
Peebles doesn’t have an alternative to the Big Bang theory to propose, but that’s his exact point: without sufficient data, scientists shouldn’t assume a convenient hypothesis is correct.
“We don’t have a strong test of what happened earlier in time,” Peebles told AFP. “We have theories, but not tested.”
But Peebles isn’t quite ready to die on this hill — he concedes that in the absence of a better way to describe the beginning of the universe, “Big Bang” does just fine.
“I have given up,” he told AFP, “I use Big Bang, I dislike it.”
originally posted by: ColonelSF
a reply to: OrionHunterX
This huge huge universe came into existence from a single point smaller than the tip of a needle - a singularity?? Does one really believe this? If so, shouldn't all matter be entangled? Could the Bang have occurred even though time did not exist?
originally posted by: Bigburgh
originally posted by: ColonelSF
a reply to: OrionHunterX
This huge huge universe came into existence from a single point smaller than the tip of a needle - a singularity?? Does one really believe this? If so, shouldn't all matter be entangled? Could the Bang have occurred even though time did not exist?
No I do not. What banged? And more importantly, where did it bang? You can't get something from nothing.
originally posted by: ColonelSF
a reply to: OrionHunterX
This huge huge universe came into existence from a single point smaller than the tip of a needle - a singularity?? Does one really believe this? If so, shouldn't all matter be entangled? Could the Bang have occurred even though time did not exist?
originally posted by: Bigburgh
originally posted by: ColonelSF
a reply to: OrionHunterX
This huge huge universe came into existence from a single point smaller than the tip of a needle - a singularity?? Does one really believe this? If so, shouldn't all matter be entangled? Could the Bang have occurred even though time did not exist?
No I do not. What banged? And more importantly, where did it bang? You can't get something from nothing.
originally posted by: Bigburgh
originally posted by: ColonelSF
a reply to: OrionHunterX
This huge huge universe came into existence from a single point smaller than the tip of a needle - a singularity?? Does one really believe this? If so, shouldn't all matter be entangled? Could the Bang have occurred even though time did not exist?
You can't get something from nothing.
Personally I have tried to process the big bang theory and I keep coming up with there was a medium that Existed before the ingredients were added that caused a great expansion...or Big bang.
The first law of thermodynamics, also known as Law of Conservation of Energy, states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one form to another. ... In other words, energy cannot be created or destroyed.
originally posted by: Bigburgh
originally posted by: ColonelSF
a reply to: OrionHunterX
This huge huge universe came into existence from a single point smaller than the tip of a needle - a singularity?? Does one really believe this? If so, shouldn't all matter be entangled? Could the Bang have occurred even though time did not exist?
No I do not. What banged? And more importantly, where did it bang? You can't get something from nothing.