[econoclectic] EclectEcon: What? No Big Bang? So What Is the Alternative Cosmology?

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What? No Big Bang? So What Is the Alternative Cosmology?
http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/posts/1167696842.shtml


   I have had a very hard time wrapping my feeble brain around the
   concept of "the big bang" as the origin of the known universe.
   However, the notion that the three spatial dimensions (plus time) are
   just a 4-dimensional membrane inside some 10- or 11-dimensional
   mega-verse makes the idea of "the big bang" a little easier to accept;
   but it's still pretty hard to fathom.
   Imagine my growing confusion when I recently learned there are some
   reasonably sane physicists who challenge the big bang theory and offer
   a steady-state view of the universe. The video [1]Universe-- Cosmology
   Quest gives some information about this controversy. Here are some
   summaries:

     Most of us are intrigued by questions to do with the origin and
     evolution of the universe. Where do we come from? Where are we
     going? These are fundamental questions. But no one knows the
     answers. In the last few years there have been many claims that we
     are finally getting a true answer. It is that the universe and all
     of the matter and energy out of which we are created was created in
     a great explosion about 15 billion years ago. This was the big
     bang. Most scientists will agree with this but there are a few of
     us, expert in the field, who understand that we still really don't
     know. This is the story of the few, ---hopefully "The Right Stuff".
     Dr. Geoffrey Burbidge
     Most astronomical theory is arrived at in personal meetings between
     members of an influential elite. This film gives an opportunity to
     hear and see, first hand, the arguments which contradict the
     currently accepted paradigms. Listen and reflect as researchers
     discuss discoveries which do not reach the news media, and public
     at large. See the evidence for a completely different universe.
     Discover together with many prominent workers in the field, what
     this universe looks like, and how it works.
     Dr. Halton Chip

   And people criticize economics because not all economists agree on
   everything? Sheeesh.

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References

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