The Big Bang theory asserts that our universe was born in a massive explosion 13.8 billion years ago. Thousands of scientific papers, textbooks, and popular articles have treated the Big Bang theory as an established fact.
Is the Big Bang Theory Wrong?
However, renowned plasma physicist and astronomer Eric Lerner has shocked the scientific community by claiming that the Big Bang never happened.
He argues: “The hypothesis that the universe is expanding after a gigantic explosion 13.8 billion years ago has now been contradicted by countless astronomical evidence accumulated over decades, including recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope of NASA.”
The Whirlpool Galaxy captured by the Webb Space Telescope – (Photo: NASA).
This data has led two prominent astrophysicists, Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser—who have been staunch supporters of the Big Bang theory—to acknowledge that there is fundamentally something wrong with this theory.
According to scientists, the predictions made by the Big Bang theory have been incorrect for decades: wrong about the cosmic microwave background radiation’s temperature and smoothness; wrong about the scale of the largest structures in the universe; wrong about the abundance of lithium and helium; wrong about the size, age, and brightness of distant galaxies.
What New Theory Replaces the Big Bang?
But if the Big Bang never occurred, then what actually happened in the universe?
Is there an alternative history of cosmic evolution that has been validated by observations? And what happened in the galaxies billions or trillions of years ago—does it make any difference?
In fact, an alternative history of cosmic evolution, scientifically validated, has been developing over the past half-century, beginning with the work of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hannes Alfvén and his collaborators.
This is a quantitative descriptive method – and predictive before observation – of the major phenomena we observe in the universe. It simultaneously utilizes physical processes that scientists observe and study on Earth and in our Solar System.
Physicist Lerner refers to this alternative method as “plasma”. Plasma—an electrically conductive gas—is crucial for understanding the evolution of the universe.
In other words, to understand the true nature of the universe, one must use observations to trace the actual evolution of the universe, step by step back in time and outward into space.
A Need for a Research “Revolution”
As telescopes on the ground and in space continue to look further into the cosmos, scientists have discovered increasingly larger clusters of galaxies than previously calculated.
Galaxy clusters, nearly spherical in shape, are strung together like beads on threads spanning tens of millions of light-years. These threads are twisted into an ever-larger system, with a radius extending over 4 billion light-years.
Scientists can measure the velocity at which galaxies are moving within this massive structure. Typically, these velocities do not exceed about 1,000 km/s, which is approximately 1/300 the speed of light.
Simple arithmetic informs scientists that these objects must be about 7,000 – 8,000 trillion years old, or roughly 500 times older than previous theoretical estimates.
The existence of these colossal objects represents one of the main contradictions to the predictions of the Big Bang theory.
Scientists argue that it is time for a revolution in scientific research regarding the concepts of universe formation. Because studying the sky can lead to extremely specific and important technological advancements on Earth.
