September 03, 2022

Errors in the Big Bang Never Happened (#255)

1 hour 3 minutes

There's been speculation in the popular press, primarily by Eric Lerner ( @LPPFusion ), claiming the Big Bang never happened. Supposedly, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope presents a 'crisis' for an old universe that emerged from a hot dense plasma, in favor of a much more ancient cosmology -- a plasma cosmology.

Prof. Lewis and I will present flaws in Eric Lerner's article, loosely based on his 30-year-old book of nearly the same name, "The Big Bang Never Happened", and evidence that contradicts his claims about the so-called crisis.

Slides will be posted to my mailing list briankeating.com/list

Yet the underpinnings of the Big Bang are more solid than ever, thanks in large part to the fossil evidence astrophysicists have found of primordial nucleosynthesis, also called BBN. Join us for a deep dive into the physics of the formation of the elements, the redshift distance relation, and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation -- perhaps the most indisputable evidence for the hot Big Bang there is.

We will provide insight into how I review such claims and how you can too even if you're not a professional cosmologist: judge for yourself.

Resources: Lerner's article

https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215

Peebles’s Anomalies In Cosmology https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05018

Lerner's first reply to criticism from me and Dr Becky, and Ethan Siegel: https://youtu.be/360aZiIWdjQ from LPPFusion with Eric Lerner replying to

@drbecky

Anton Petrov @WhatDaMath

Ethan Siegel @StartsWithABang

And others in new series on Big Bang Never Happened Debate. #BigBang #BigBangNeverHappened #JWST

@DrBecky presentation https://youtu.be/Fqfap3v0xxw

@Anton Petrov analysis https://youtu.be/Y2DOCWyyhdI

UCLA Professor Ned Wright: Errors in the "The Big Bang Never Happened: https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/lerner_errors.html

Follow Allison Kirkpatrick https://twitter.com/AkAstronomy

Ethan Siegel https://twitter.com/StartsWithABang https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/has-jwst-disproven-big-bang/

Watch my first video on this controversy: https://youtu.be/SYeUkVqDZjA

Watch my deep dive into the physics of the Big Bang nucleosynthesis: https://youtu.be/XLT05w79c64

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