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Goodbye Big Bang, Hello Black Hole? A New Theory Of The Universe’s Creation
Universe Today ^ | September 18, 2015 | ELIZABETH HOWELL on SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Posted on 09/30/2015 7:10:11 PM PDT by lbryce

Could the famed “Big Bang” theory need a revision? A group of theoretical physicists suppose the birth of the universe could have happened after a four-dimensional star collapsed into a black hole and ejected debris.

Before getting into their findings, let’s just preface this by saying nobody knows anything for sure. Humans obviously weren’t around at the time the universe began. The standard theory is that the universe grew from an infinitely dense point or singularity, but who knows what was there before?

“For all physicists know, dragons could have come flying out of the singularity,” stated Niayesh Afshordi, an astrophysicist with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada who co-authored the new study.

So what are the limitations of the Big Bang theory? The singularity is one of them. Also, it’s hard to predict why it would have produced a universe that has an almost uniform temperature, because the age of our universe (about 13.8 billion years) does not give enough time — as far as we can tell — to reach a temperature equilibrium.

Most cosmologists say the universe must have been expanding faster than the speed of light for this to happen, but Ashford says even that theory has problems: “The Big Bang was so chaotic, it’s not clear there would have been even a small homogenous patch for inflation to start working on.”

(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astrophysics; bigbang; blackhole; darkenergy; darkmatter; physics; steadystate; stringtheory; universe
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Scientists of many disciplines are DESPERATE to disprove God. His very existence would condemn their sinful lives and require them to change or else try to deny Him. They try to conjure up fantastic hypotheses that all matter spontaneously came from nothing and then randomly assembled itself into a well-ordered universe with no external influence involved. It is no more incredible to believe in a Creator than what they are proposing.


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