Big Bang or Biggest Blunder?

Big Bang or Biggest Blunder?

According to the big bang theory, all matter in the universe was at essentially the same point in space just 13.7 billion years ago.

This provides a universal clock that all observers can use to agree on what happened where and when: just measure time since the big bang.

Chapter 2 of the book covers the period of model building, following Einstein’s discovery of general relativity, applying the theory to the universe as a hole. And it appears that Einstein favoured a cylinder model that had a universal time.

This is problematic for special relativity, where space and time get inextricably intertwined and observers in relative motion to each other do not agree on what happened where and when.

It leads to the assumption that space time is restricted to a subspace of the full de Sitter Space, that which originated at a single point a mere 13.7 billion years ago.

The Big Bang theory

Einstein’s biggest blunder?

It is more than a little unreasonable to question the models of the day given today’s observational astrophysics.

I think it is safe to admit that there will, in time be plenty of worthy winners, but in most cases the blunders will turn out to be extremely informative, once viewed with a new perspective.

It is the experiments that don’t work as expected that tend to have the biggest effect. Michelson-Morley is one.

It is the mistakes we make that we do not know we have made that are most problematic.

For now, this model will just be a collection of visualisations from the project.