Pow! Zap! (Big) Bang?! (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, October 07, 2010, 13:29 (5161 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tony has drawn our attention (6 October at 16.08) to an article which not only discredits the Big Bang Theory but is also scathing about certain other theories and especially about the way in which the scientific establishment behaves generally. Here is the conclusion:-"There is widespread belief among physicists and non-physicists alike that physics has essentially "figured out" the universe. According to this "end of science" argument, all that remains to the great enterprise of science is to connect a few dots and do some fine-tuning. But the evidence discussed in this article suggests that this satisfactory state of affairs is a mere illusion created by the scientific establishment's habit of suppressing or ignoring disconfirming evidence, and that some of the most basic tenets of physics are in need of major revision."-The article is rather long, and I had to skim quite a lot of the detail, but it needs to be read. Just how much science can we take on trust? As Stephen Hawking has shown, you can chuck in any old theory you like (apart from God, of course), so long as you've got the right connections in the science world. If you haven't, no-one will listen. As a non-scientist I find it confusing and depressing, but at the same time there is a kind of perverse pleasure to be derived from the fact that materialism continues to chase its own tail.