The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe

by Eric J. Lerner

Hardcover, 1991

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Available

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QB991.B54 L47

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Times Books (1991), 466 pages

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A mesmerizing challenge to orthodox cosmology with powerful implications not only for cosmology itself but also for our notions of time, God, and human nature -- with a new Preface addressing the latest developments in the field. Far-ranging and provocative, The Big Bang Never Happened is more than a critique of one of the primary theories of astronomy -- that the universe appeared out of nothingness in a single cataclysmic explosion ten to twenty billion years ago. Drawing on new discoveries in particle physics and thermodynamics as well as on readings in history and philosophy, Eric J. Lerner confronts the values behind the Big Bang theory: the belief that mathematical formulae are superior to empirical observation; that the universe is finite and decaying; and that it could only come into being through some outside force. With inspiring boldness and scientific rigor, he offers a brilliantly orchestrated argument that generates explosive intellectual debate.… (more)

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LibraryThing member fduniho

Scientifically rigorous. It convinced me that the big bang never happened.

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LibraryThing member tonynetone

Evidence that the Big Bang theory was deny the truth that is the universe is infinite in size, it is ageless, it is timeless, and no big bang, so ever occurred. I strongly recommend Eric Lerner's The Big Bang Never Happened. There are thousands of astronomical observations that confirm in detail

what book explain, highlights a discoverys by many famous astronomers that invalidates the Big Bang theory, from which it has explain that no-one knows what happened. While there is scientific consensus that Big Bang theory require too many adjustable parameters to make them work, there's a growing chorus of can match each of the critical observations. Startling refutation of the dominant theory of the origin of the Universe universe has too much large scale structure to form in a time as short as 10-20 billion years, also need a best explanation about globular clusters that appear older than the universe,very improbable that motions of galaxies are too high for a finite universe, all the big bang theory says and match each of the critical observations. I would like to do this with a series of book and reviews from old Big Bang theory has so many wide open as flaws about comparison of Plasma Cosmology and the Big Bang, mesmerizing challenge to orthodox cosmology with powerful implications not only for business but like in the educations.

The Big Bang Never Happened" is a 400 page review of the history of cosmology, Eric Lerner details a whole series of observations

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