Name: Anonymous 2015-08-30 14:33
Believers in "The Big Bang" usually avoid saying that it is a theory based on extrapolation. Extrapolation is a theoretical method whose scientific results are inconclusive at best, and outright false at worst. Usually, proximity to the latter is proportional to the ratio of the interval of extrapolation to the interval that is being extrapolated. E.g. it might be okay for an undergrad to extrapolate his lab results from 50 cm to 60 cm, but it's probably not okay to extrapolate from 1 second to an hour ("if my dick has grown by 1 cm in the first second of erection, it will have grown by 36 m an hour from now!").
The theory of "the Big Bang" is based on extrapolation of about a hundred years of observations (since Hubble's discovery of the inflation of the universe) to 14 billion years of the supposed existence of the universe. That is 108x worth of extrapolation.
Imagine that you're in Los Angeles, you walk out into the street and see a car driving in the westward direction for a 100 meters. Would it be justified for you to say that this car has been driving westward all the way from New York? Yet that is a much more modest extrapolation (4000 km/100m ~ 104) than is required to believe in "the Big Bang" theory.
The extent of human observations of the Universe is less than an eyeblink, nay, less than the time required for a fly to flap its wings, compared to the time scale proponents of TBB theory propose as the age of the Universe. The Universe may have contracted and expanded a 100 times during those billions of years, yet these people want to believe that it has been just one endless expansion from some mythical singularity. "The Big Bang" theory one of the most idiotic and baseless theories in all modern science, yet the scientific establishment seems to have accepted it as the scientific consensus.
The theory of "the Big Bang" is based on extrapolation of about a hundred years of observations (since Hubble's discovery of the inflation of the universe) to 14 billion years of the supposed existence of the universe. That is 108x worth of extrapolation.
Imagine that you're in Los Angeles, you walk out into the street and see a car driving in the westward direction for a 100 meters. Would it be justified for you to say that this car has been driving westward all the way from New York? Yet that is a much more modest extrapolation (4000 km/100m ~ 104) than is required to believe in "the Big Bang" theory.
The extent of human observations of the Universe is less than an eyeblink, nay, less than the time required for a fly to flap its wings, compared to the time scale proponents of TBB theory propose as the age of the Universe. The Universe may have contracted and expanded a 100 times during those billions of years, yet these people want to believe that it has been just one endless expansion from some mythical singularity. "The Big Bang" theory one of the most idiotic and baseless theories in all modern science, yet the scientific establishment seems to have accepted it as the scientific consensus.