Sunday, September 26, 2010
Cosmologists have made great progress developing cogent theories about the fundamental properties of the observable universe. We can now map it with instruments like the Hubble Space Telescope, the COsmic Background Explorer (COBE), and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). These tools follow breakthroughs like the general theory of relativity, and point to a birth event some 13.75 billions year ago. Big Bang Theory posits an massive explosion from a dense singularity, expressed as heat, charged particles, and gravitational waves. In this overview, I propose an alternative theory that is consonent with the observational data, but which I believe is more useful and predictive in describing the origin, structure, and ultimate fate of the universe.
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