The
Big Bang According to Mr. Hawking
The
world's foremost Astrophysicist and author, Stephen Hawking in his recent
book A Brief History of Time: Updated and Expanded, points out several
errors in the widely accepted and taught theory of the Big Bang.
Here
are the reasons as he listed them in the hardcover book on pages 155-156.
Errors
with the Big Bang Theory:
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"Why
was the early universe so hot?"
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"Why
is the universe so uniform on a large scale? Why does it look the same
at all points at all directions?"
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"Why
did the universe start out with so nearly the critical rate of expansion...[and]....even
now, ten thousand million years later, it is still expanding at nearly
the critical rate of expansion? If the rate of expansion one second after
the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hunderd thousand million
million, the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its
present size."
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"Despite
the fact that that the universe is so uniform and homogeneous on a large
scale, it contains local irregularities, such as stars and galaxies. These
are thought to have developed from small differences in the density of
the early universe from one region to another. What was the origin of these
density fluctuations?"
Mr.
Hawking goes on to point out on page 156 that "Yet in the model described
above [the Big Bang], there would not have been enough time since the the
big bang for light to get from one distant region to another, even though
the regions were close together in the early universe. According to the
theory of relativity, if light cannot get from one region to another, no
other information can. So there would be no way in which different regions
in the universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each
other, unless for some unexplained reason, they happened to start out with
the same tempersture."
Other
discrediting statements from Mr. Hawking:
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"The
whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do
not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying
order , which may or may not be divinely inspired." p. 157
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"The
remarkable fact is that the values of these [fundamental] numbers seem
to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.
For example, if the electric charge of the electron had been only slightly
different, stars either would have been unable to burn hydrogen and helium,
or else they would not have exploded." p. 160
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"In
the hot big bang model described above, there was not enough time in the
early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another. This
means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly
the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the
microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look.
The initial rate of expansion also would have had to be chosen very precisely
for the rate of expansion still to be so close to the critical rate needed
to avoid recollapse. This means that the universe must have been very carefully
chosen indeed if the hot big bang model was correct right back to the beginning
of time. It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should
have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to
create beings like us." p. 163
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