I just find it amazing. Back in the 80s, when my mind was first questioning and understanding concepts like time, I read up on the beginning of what we know as the Universe. There were two main theories at the time, one was a quiet method with a lightning streak in the diagram. And the other was BBT. Both were theories, both were stated to be just pure conjecture because no evidence existed enough to support or prove they could have happened. There was more than mention in the article that there were plenty of other theories.
Sometime by the late 90s, however, it became holy doctrine that BBT was the One True Origin and anything else was heresy. All science articles, all websites, spoke as if it was settled law and everything was to flesh out this crackpot theory. To support it, they came up with multiple universes, that it all began and ended again and again, that these blasts and collapses were inevitable.
And yet, there has been no proof. Sure, they interpret things like red shift to somehow be proof, but that's just a natural state of light. It doesn't mean the universe is expanding and cooling.
Any evidence that the universe is infinite and always has been, well, that's burning at the stake voodoo witchcraft talk.
I just find it amazing. Back in the 80s, when my mind was first questioning and understanding concepts like time, I read up on the beginning of what we know as the Universe. There were two main theories at the time, one was a quiet method with a lightning streak in the diagram. And the other was BBT. Both were theories, both were stated to be just pure conjecture because no evidence existed enough to support or prove they could have happened. There was more than mention in the article that there were plenty of other theories.
Sometime by the late 90s, however, it became holy doctrine that BBT was the One True Origin and anything else was heresy. All science articles, all websites, spoke as if it was settled law and everything was to flesh out this crackpot theory. To support it, they came up with multiple universes, that it all began and ended again and again, that these blasts and collapses were inevitable.
And yet, there has been no proof. Sure, they interpret things like red shift to somehow be proof, but that's just a natural state of light. It doesn't mean the universe is expanding and cooling.
Any evidence that the universe is infinite and always has been, well, that's burning at the stake voodoo witchcraft talk.
It's half truth really. It's so vast that it might as well be infinite.
Or maybe it's infinite.