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Originally posted by James J Dierbeck
This topic category is the war zone of many a forum. Without claiming I can speak adequately for 20 year veteran Chief of Celestial Mechanics Branch of US Naval Observatory, Dr van Flandern; see his 30 problems with Big Bang condensed to 10 flaws with the Bang.
1- Static universe models fit the data better than expanding universe models
The microwave "background" makes more sense as the limiting temperature of space heated by starlight than as the remnant of a fireball.
To summarize, the Big Bang theory predicts, and observations have confirmed:
-The expansion of the universe.
-The 3deg. cosmic background radiation.
-The amount of hydrogen (including deuterium) and helium present in the universe (more about this later).
3- Element abundance predictions using the big bang require too many adjustable parameters to make them work.
4- The universe has too much large scale structure (interspersed "walls" and voids) to form in a time as short as 10-20 billion years.
(emphasis mine)
www.ncsu.edu...
The mechanism by which this clumping occurred is fairly simple, although its details continue to be studied and debated. At the time of recombination the universe consisted of a nearly uniform hot gas with regions very slightly denser than the average and others very slightly less dense. If the density had been exactly the same everywhere then it would have always stayed that way
5-The average luminosity of quasars must decrease with time in just the right way so that their mean apparent brightness is the same at all redshifts, which is exceedingly unlikely.
6-
The ages of globular clusters appear older than the universe
www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de...
In the mid-90s, the acceleration of the expansion of the universe had not yet been discovered. Measurements of the Hubble parameter in that time yielded values around 80 km/s/Mpc - not too different from today's best value of about 72 km/s/Mpc. But since a decelerating universe was assumed, this gave an age of the universe of only around 10 billion years - instead of the 13.7 billion years one obtains when one takes into account the acceleration (and the modern measurements of the Hubble parameter).
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Nowadays, the age of the oldest stars is nicely consistent with the age of the universe - see section 2g
Originally posted by James J Dierbeck
You want me to fall with Dr van Flandern, when I don't even care if he's right or wrong. I posted it to mess with the worshippers of the sacred cow of mainstream science.
Feel free to humiliate him at the message board he has, IF you can. Force him to shut it down in shame! He's got a team of debaters on the site who've heard ALL the arguments before.
Big Bang or not matters not to me, or the big ejaculation theory.
Please post a link to your slam dunk in one paragraph at his message board, so I can witness your glorious victory over former Chief of Celestial Mechanics Branch of US Naval Observatory. Your credentials are?
Originally posted by James J Dierbeck
.... I never pretended to be an astrophysicist or be able to say who's right.
I'm only casting doubt on current theory so worshipped by the mainstream. BB & Expanding universe are THEORIES, not conclusive facts.
Know it alls don't know it all, & a paragraph or two doesn't comprehensively answer all 10 flaws with the Big Bang posted. I couldn't care less, because either way, my faith is unaffected.
You want me to defend arguments I don't even understand.
No, I want you know it alls to post a link to his message board debates, so I can watch you humiliate him, because none from any other site has skunked him yet. Prove you can win a debate with him, don't just claim he's wrong!
www.jerrypournelle.com...
I do not know whether or not he does indeed possess a doctorate, but his modus operandi is to make startling claims about the nature of the universe intended to spark interest in the layman, and then to proceed in buttressing his claims using carefully-selected rhetoric calculated to stroke the ego of the reader, employing just enough scientific jargon and showing a few complicated-looking equations to make it all seem plausible to the non-specialist.
(emphasis mine)
his disputation of the Big Bang hypothesis (while there is still some contention about the Big Bang, there’s no original scientific work in evidence by Mr. Van Flandern, just the by-now-familiar assertions wrapped in jargon),
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