Recent content by Robotron

Since this thread was created, the James Webb Space Telescope has made a shambles of the BB model. I've collected probably 100 articles about scientists being shocked, flabbergasted, stunned and just plain annoyed by the "early" universe's refusal to conform to BB predictions. The most distant...

Mainstream models of cometary formation are developed within the context of the big bang model, just like every other cosmological (or in this case, planetary) process. The nebular hypothesis, the Nice model, and the solar nebula model all arise from the assumptions that objects we observe today...

That's a good question. The idea that redshift always indicates recessional velocity (and, hence, in the BB model, distance) is NOT set in stone. According to Halton Arp (of Harvard, CIT, etc.), certain celestial objects (e.g. quasars) have an *intrinsic* redshift. His catalog of observations...

I have a better way of resolving dark matter: it doesn't exist and the big bang never happened. Before the defenders of the status quo descend upon me en masse, I need to ask you all a question: can the big bang model in its current fashion be falsified? In other words, what *specific*...

Thanks, ChatGPT!

I'm resurrecting this thread in honor of the Webb telescope, which is a lock to put the final stake in the heart of the soul-sucking vampire many worship as the big bang model. Even in the first few weeks we've received stunning evidence that the big bang is toast. To wit: Astronomers Say...

Congrats to NASA for successfully collecting a sample from asteroid Bennu today. As with every asteroid (and comet) mission to date, the science team will undoubtedly encounter several pieces of evidence that directly contradict the favored model of asteroid and comet origins. Specifically, I'm...

This is the region of Cydonia of Mars, home of the infamous "Face on Mars." The easy answer is pareidolia, which is the favored response of skeptics who haven't actually looked at the evidence for artificiality. The reason Cydonia has been of such intense interest over the past 30 years is that...

Dr. Joe said it's falsifiable but that he couldn't think of anything specifically that would falsify it. Isn't that the very definition of contradiction? Above, Lyman_alpher takes a stab at a real answer, and I appreciate that. The most viable way I see to falsify any expanding universe model...

I asked the same question of Dr. Pesce over in his Q&A thread. He provided a cordial non-answer: So is it falsifiable or not? I would think that not being able to proactively outline criteria that could cast doubt on our assumptions is a slippery slope that no scientist should like to tread...

The work of Halton Arp (Harvard, Caltech) and Tom Van Flandern (Yale, Chief of the Celestial Mechanics Branch of the Nautical Almanac Office), and many others suggests that the "big bang" model of cosmology has major (often fatal) flaws. For example, see Van Flandern's list of the Top 30...

Arp worked in concert with many scientists to show redshift doesn't always indicate distance. How many scientists do you need before a conclusion is valid? Two, five, a thousand? I was under the impression science is not a popularity contest, but rather a data driven effort. If people disagree...

Religious content? Laff. Okay. Apparently someone doesn't like me equating belief in the big bang with believing in miracles, even though that's exactly what it requires. But I'm glad someone's reading this thread.

What if there wasn't a t=0? Arp's evidence suggests redshift doesn't always indicate distance. Therefore the problem that neither QM nor GR can address no longer needs to be addressed. <<Religious content removed by moderator>> But while I love talking philosophy, I'd rather talk about what...