The most interesting facet of The Big Bang Theory is the phenomenon keeping it alive.

From the authors of the book about the latest new and improved version of the ever expanding theory, The Big Bang, entitled "Endless Universe; Beyond the Big Bang", Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok include on their website this answer to the question of what lead them to this new version of the old theory - 
  "We were motivated by the fact that, over the last few decades, more and more elements have had to be added to the Big Bang Theory to make it consistent with what we observe. To explain why the universe is so uniform, we had to add a new feature called inflation. To explain the formation of structure, we had to add dark matter. The recent discovery that the expansion of the universe has begun to speed up has required the addition of something called dark energy. Each of these elements have been added one by one to make today’s Big Bang Theory a kind of patchwork of disconnected ideas. Furthermore, in the background, there has been the disturbing notion that the big bang is the beginning of everything – something that has never been successfully explained by fundamental physics."

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quote from:
http://www.epola.co.uk/epola_org/BIGBANG.HTML

"EXPANDING UNIVERSE"-THE GREATEST
MATHEMATICAL DECEPTION IN 20-TH CENTURY PHYSICS

Falsification of the Hubble-Humason Law.  Unprejudiced (and honest) scientists, who observe redshift values that depend on distance, would consider factors acting on light along this distance. These factors are absorption and gravitation. The redshifts they cause are roughly proportional to the distance crossed by light, because the numbers of non-linear absorption events and of massive stars increase with distance. Hence these two phenomena fit perfectly the Hubble-Humason Law.
Unfortunately for Natural Physics, some mathematicians in physics had long before decided that the universe is expanding, therefore celestial objects must run away from us. When they found out about the Hubble-Humason Redshifts, they decided that those must be Doppler redshifts, to serve as the first and only "experimental" proof of the expansion. That was Act 1, for internal use. In Act 2, for the public, students, and media, the argumentation was turned around, to start with the barefaced lie, that "spectra of extragalaxial nebulae show large Doppler (!) redshifts". Then, that "these redshifts prove (!) that the nebulae run away from us", hence "the universe is expanding".
However, Doppler redshifts and blueshifts are proportional to the velocity of the emitter relative to the receiver of radiation. They have nothing to do with the distance to the emitter.  Hence, Doppler redshifts do not fit the physical Hubble-Humason law of the proportionality of nebular redshifts to distance. In Act 3, the law was therefore twisted (falsified!) to say that "the runaway velocities of extragalaxial nebulae are proportional to the distances to them".  Thus, the farther a nebula the faster must the poor thing run away from us, just in order to fit the ideology.

Dismissal of the Big Bang Creation of Universes.  The reason why there was and is such a strong interest in the runaway misinterpretation of the Hubble-Humason redshifts is that this turns the redshift into the only available quasi-"experimental proof" that the universe is expanding.  It provides the main support for the Big Bang theories of an ever-exploding universe.  These theories enable people with mathematical skills and artistic disregard of reality, to compile picturesque, photogenic (and TV-genic) processes, and be pronounced "Maker of Universes" (Einstein, 1937), "Wizard of Time and Space", "Master of the Universe" (Hawking, 1990), etc.
The development of the Big Bang theory is based, in addition to the twisted Hubble-Humason law and the several "background" and "leftover" misinterpretations of the 3K radiation, on two postulates of relativity.  First, that the speed of light in space is the same in the whole universe.  Second, that the laws and postulates, established in our backyard, are equally valid in the whole universe.  But what is valid here is not necessarily right at distances trillions of light years away!
The vacuum light velocity c is the velocity of bulk deformation waves in the epola.  It therefore depends on local conditions in the epola space, as the velocity of sound depends on conditions in solid lattices.  These are the lattice temperature, the concentration and distribution of foreign particles, lattice faults, etc.  The vacuum light velocity c is certainly a very important constant in our epola region, and as far out as the mentioned conditions remain stable, but not in the whole universe.
Dismissal of the runaway interpretation of the Hubble-Humason redshifts, the reversal of the 3K "background" radiation into the thermal radiation of the epola around us, and the disproval of the universal constancy of light velocity reveal that Big Bang theories are pseudo-science fictions.

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The Big Tweak Theory...

   "The Big Bang Theory may be the most "tweaked" theory in the history of science, and the additional fudge factors become more outrageous, unscientific, and even metaphysical as it goes along.  Problems with the theory are filled in with ideas that have no real scientific proof and require no connection with reality at all.  The back-story as to why this is being done, and why so many people cling to and support this myth so strongly is complex and much a matter of who one speaks with or which field is examined.  The bottom line though is that in modern times the most popular view of the universe is not unlike views of the ancient Greeks or Romans.   We live in times not so unlike those of Mount Olympus and Zues with his lightning bolts, in that many people simply believe in the divine origin of the human being as central in the universe.  The passion to make of the universe a divine and magical thing is overwhelming for many.  Even people who swear, and may actually believe, that they are not influenced by their philosophy or religion are secretly swayed, perhaps in a way that is secret even from themselves.  Having a way to know the origin of everything is a powerful force, even if it is all make believe in reality.
   My opinion is, of course, in the extreme minority on this, as it was for those in ancient times who did not prescribe to the popular belief systems of the era.  It seems to me though that more and more people who participate in these systems are able to see through them yet choose to go along for the many many benefits, privileges, and positive reasons associated with being inside the popular way of life, or to avoid the many subtle and gross punishments outsiders are made to suffer, which luckily are must lesser in degree today due to laws and social distaste for burning people at the stake in modern times.  
   Unless major changes are made to the political landscape in the coming year or two, the next "tweak" to The New Big Bang Theory may be the final icing on the mythological cake...a divine source.  This sounds like something out of science fiction, or conspiracy theory magazine, but it is simply a fact of "modern" times in the West.  It is popular to believe that the universe sprang from a magical blink of an eye, as did humans and Earth, with no ecological or evolutionary principles needed.  Things mystical can become real science in the blink of an eye."

pseudo-science fiction.

Excerpted from: cosmologystatement.org

(Published in New Scientist, May 22-28 issue, 2004, p. 20)
signed by an increasing number of science professionals.

…“Whereas Richard Feynman could say that "science is the culture of doubt," in cosmology today doubt and dissent are not tolerated, and young scientists learn to remain silent if they have something negative to say about the standard big bang model. Those who doubt the big bang fear that saying so will cost them their funding.  

   Even observations are now interpreted through this biased filter, judged right or wrong depending on whether or not they support the big bang. So discordant data on red shifts, lithium and helium abundances, and galaxy distribution, among other topics, are ignored or ridiculed.    This reflects a growing dogmatic mindset that is alien to the spirit of free scientific enquiry.  

   Today, virtually all financial and experimental resources in cosmology are devoted to big bang studies. Funding comes from only a few sources, and all the peer-review committees that control them are dominated by supporters of the big bang. As a result, the dominance of the big bang within the field has become self-sustaining, irrespective of the scientific validity of the theory.”… 
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    From a newspaper article, August 11, 2007, excerpted from a conversation with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton while touring the construction site of the new Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California:

   "Scientists have been muzzled, information has been taken off of government-sponsored Web sites, the leaders of our country have dissmissed scientific research and advancements.  There has been a concerted effort against stem cell research, a campaign against evolution.  I mean, it has been relentless.
    It's important to have institutions like this, with such a distinguished history, that can perpetuate curiosity and intellectual inquiry.  But it would help to have a president who actually supported science again."

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Did you know that The Big Bang Theory, out of necessity to make it viable as an idea, calls for everything to have moved faster than light at first even though there is no reason to think that this is possible other than to explain the theory, that gravity is a separate element like Helium or Hydrogen though there is no evidence anywhere of this, that space expands and can move billions of gallaxies without having any effect upon their shape or revolutions,that microwaves are the leftover signature of an exploding cosmic seed atom, and so forth as needed to support the mythology in whatever way is needed?  What's wrong with this picture?  Is this science or Creation? 

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Television Cosmology....
Due to the process by which ideas are approved and accepted in the scientific community, content in the very latest television programing, such as the PBS series "The Universe", may be up to 30 years behind the times in terms of what is actually true about the cosmos.  Programs such as that one become part of modern mythology rather than news bulletins about the latest and most creative ideas in cosmology.  They become tools for furthering popular views that actually have no basis within reality whatsoever, as bizarre as this seems, and much of the information presented relates only to what certain people wish to be true and believe to be the case.  Just as one should not believe everything printed in the newspaper, the same goes for television programs, even ones produced this year.  Consumer beware.
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Beyond the big bang myth... (2005)
   The overwhelming evidence, incontrovertible facts, and clear proof that the world was flat were even more widely accepted than today's theory of a big bang origin of the universe, yet over time, and given new ways of seeing, this idea was eventually replaced.  The new awakening potential of human intelligence includes the ability to advance these ways of seeing, thinking, and believing ahead of the normally slow and painstaking process of transformation of major paradigm and popular thought leaving behind current popular myth.  The urgency of awakening this new ability lies in the fact that current modern popular notions of life and the universe do not place humankind within the ecological systems and natural environmental evolutionary process from which we come, but rather give a supernatural or extraterrestrial origin for the Human being (and the universe) allowing us to destroy that from which we come and cannot live without.  So long as humankind can evolve into a distant future, new ideas will eventually replace the current ones, but since the natural world is being destroyed daily there is not the time or luxury to wait for the slow and time consuming process to take place on it's own.  We need to wake up in a major way right now in order to save what little is left of the natural world for future generations to have a chance to believe anything at all.  Thanks to the power of the Internet and the global transfer of thought and information, we are awakening to this new potential everyday just as the environment is crumbling around us.  This is a race against time, and we simply must wake up and move ahead.
   Is our quest to fill in the mystery of life and the universe with so called facts more important than the future of all life on the planet?  What do you believe?
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Grand Unified Theory of Everything?...  (2007)  

  Thinking of everything, all of time and space and matter, as one single unified thing is a very strange concept and perhaps even quite irrelevant on a day-to-day basis as one navigates through a typical day of life on Earth.  Everything in the Universe may be physical, or in existence through its relationship to the physical, but we do not usually consider the space around our bodies as having physical form, for example, as though we are swimming through the air as we walk, and when we turn on a light we usually do not imagine all the billions of photons flying about.  Usually we consider there to be something or nothing and make distinctions between physical things as we negotiate through the physical world in time.  Thinking of “time” as a physical thing is also not a typical common sense notion, though time is a term referring to the physical motions or transformations of physical objects and things.  If nothing is moving or changing at all anywhere, where is the movement in time? 

   In the realm of spirituality, or human consciousness, where is the physical element?  Often there is an underlying assumption that this is an area separate and apart from the physical universe somehow, like we are not really a part of the grand unified theory of everything, but above it observing and defining it.  In every single case though, when I have heard definitions of spirit or soul there is the physical element present in the words and concepts.  Even for an individual soul to exist separate from a physical body there has to be a material boundary or some way to identify it and for it to exist in the imagination of the person describing it and there is dimension, location, and reality to it.  In general, the reality behind this kind of entity would require it to be deaf, dumb, blind, without senses of sight or sound or touch or smell, etc., and there would be no mental function or dreams or thinking, and no ability to move about in space and time.  In other words, it could not exist in any physical way.  Yet, in the world or religion and spiritual philosophy in general, the human soul is described as having quite an active physical life and varied occupations requiring detailed material action, reaction, and a distinct individual physical presence separate from all other souls.  So, in other words, humans are considered apart from The Universe.  How then can there be a Grand Unified Theory of Everything then?

   Well, as usual with much of my writing, I’ve gotten a little lost here.   What is the point?  The point is that humanity is really quite full of itself and above it all even considering the species as rising above the entire Universe itself somehow, not to mention Earth.  This attitude, set of beliefs and assumptions, and mythological paradigm is what allows humankind to utterly despoil our natural environment and wage wars and generally behave quite insanely while believing we are higher superior entities and above it all.

   What I am proposing is that human beings are actually quite amazing and fantastic as physical creatures having evolved upon a beautiful blue planet, and that imaginary realms of heavenly extraterrestrial origins need not apply.  There is no shame in considering humanity as having evolved along with and being a total part of this complex physical sensation known as The Universe.  In any Grand Unified Theory of Everything, the first thing that should be included is us.   Who, after all, is doing the thinking, figuring, and imagining anyway?  It’s all a human thing.

Grand ideas (2006)  
"Ideas are very powerful in their influence over our lives", as Alan Watts once said.  Ideas such as Dark Matter, Missing Mass, The Big Bang Theory, and Super Strings, etc., all involve thoughts formulated into theories, equations, search parameters, and basic ways of seeing the large scale universe and conducting science.  When these kinds of focal points are formed, there may be areas or directions that are naturally abandoned or left out in the process.  This phenomenon can lead to entire generations of work basically following a dead end path or running in circles.  Seeking answers to the dark matter / missing mass problem, for example, researchers may focus on “empty” areas of the cosmos seeking a source of attraction factors when the answer they actually seek may lie at the (full areas) center of bodies like Earth, the Sun, and The Milky Way Galaxy.  All the work related to The Big Bang Theory, as another example, may ignore the fact that it is not a very good idea in the first place and the greatest feature of the “the bang” idea is it’s ability to spin wheels and get science nowhere (in no space and no time).  Big ideas seem to form vicious circles, or snow ball effects, and it may be an entire generation (or two or three) before people stand up and look a different way.  So many questions are open, from the nature of light to the source of gravity and so on and so forth, yet it is the job of science to operate from some fundamental basics and “laws” and ideas, whether they are wrong or not, and fundamental foundational beliefs are less often questioned in the process of science.  In modern times though, life on Earth cannot stand the impact of operating based upon erroneous laws, theories, or ideas that are related to changing everything on Earth, including our own bodies.  The big ideas must be questioned now, even if this is very hard to do.
    Any "Grand Unified Theory of Everything" must include the process of thinking, thought, belief, and the fallibility of the human mind.  The source of the devastating problems all over the world lies within this realm - the arena of big ideas.
    Is the universe really expanding in every direction away from Earth faster and faster the farther one can see, or could distant red shifting mean that the light is older and slowed down the farther it has come?  Why do people believe expansion and despise the idea that light ages and changes over time and "experience"?  What do detected background microwaves mean?  Are you sure?  Was the entire universe once crushed into one single place?  Why do people believe in this idea so strongly and defend it so religiously?
    The emotions, passions, and dedication related to some ideas, such as Dark Energy and The Big Bang, etc., are as interesting as anything else about these notions.  What makes ideas "near truths" is a part of human nature, not a revelation of the reality of the natural world and universe.  We make things up and create myth, theory, laws, and models, and then we forget where they originated, or choose to define these ideas as factual when they are in fact theory, and just big ideas. 
    Take a look back for yourself to see where some of the big ideas sprang from.  Is this easy to do?  Are there materials readily available that lay out the history and formation of the myth of god?  Where can you find a book about the history of the big bang hypothesis and what makes it so popular, and what is also basically wrong with the idea?   These things are more and more available and more and more people are looking and thinking outside the popular box.   
    Someone once asked me;  "What difference does it make where the universe came from?"  I realized that most people do not see the interconnection between belief systems and environmental issues and problems.  That is the most important thing.  What really does make a difference in all this, whether the Earth is flat or round, the universe from a point in no space/no time or evolved from other realms of the cosmos yet unknown, and what difference does it make whether or not humans are from a heavenly spiritual place or from the Earth?
It makes all the difference in the world, and it is really a matter of life and death.
    Think about it.  I do every day (hence all these log entries, essays, notes, and blurbs).  See for yourself what difference it makes what you think and believe.    
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   "Anyone (in 2007) still considering The Big Bang Theory as a viable model of the structure of the universe must be asleep.  Simply not having another model as popular as that one was is a very pitiful reason to prop up it's decayed old foundations to keep it around."

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“The history of Cosmology is a relentless retreat of the Earth as the center of the universe.”  from the PBS television program, “The Universe: Beyond The Big Bang”, along with, to paraphrase from another part of the same program, “The Big Bang is widely accepted as true and those who do not go along with this are generally considered crack pots.”

   The next step in this retreating of The Earth as the center of The Universe is the realization that The Big Bang Theory, even in the latest of it’s many different versions, is completely incorrect.   The Earth is not the center of the Universe by so called “Fingers of God” redshift interpretation, microwave “evidence”, expanding space, etc., all pointing to our planet as the center of the cosmos, according to my personal “crack pot” thinking that is.  It is far beyond time to wake up and see beyond this pervasive myth to open up the field of Cosmology to new and brighter ideas, and, it is high time civilization moved intellectually out of the Roman empire era of Zeus and Earth centered cosmology and into a new age of greater intelligence and creativity.

    In my view, one of the first things children should be taught in school is that ideas, theories, and thinking as new and world changing as that of Newton and Einstein is available to their generation.  Knowledge in all areas of human endeavor, especially the field of Physics and Cosmology, is wide open for new work, improvement, and even revolutionary transformation by future scientists and thinkers.  These jobs are open.

    It is not only shameful to imply that The Universe is a nearly known thing, it is actually a terrible injustice to future thinkers and would-be-cosmologists to teach that something as ludicrous as The Big Bang Genesis Seed Myth is actually good science at all.  The damage done and the decades of set backs are also compounded by the fact, again in my “crack pot” opinion of course, is that this long outdated theory also contributes to beliefs that all of humanity popped into existence in this mystical magical way as well, and that we are not actually from Earth in the first place but rather this other dimension in which cosmic atoms can produce billions of galaxies in a single bang.

   What new ideas might have hatched had people of the past generations been encouraged to think in new directions and follow new lines of research and exploration instead of being fed this magic seed myth/idea?  Humanity will never know, and the damage done will never be repaired in terms of the effects upon the environment, species extinctions, and general global catastrophe brought about by people not believing we are even from this place called Earth in the first place.

    Why do people believe so strongly in The Big Bang?  What else is there?  What difference does it make where the Universe came from?  These and other questions are central to many of the essays and articles of cosmology awakening.