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Title: Bye Bye Big Bang: Hello Reality by William C. Mitchell ISBN: 0-9643188-1-4 Publisher: Cosmic Sense Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: This author needs to get a life.
Comment: Everyone has their right to believe what they want. But.. I don't think this author should dwell on whats he thinks is wrong. Just believe in what you believe is right. If you are going to make a book about how the Big Bang is wrong, why not make a book about how Christianity is wrong or how Atheism is wrong. People are going to believe what they want. But its not right to sit there and say whats wrong and right. Its about what you believe. Let people believe in the Big Bang. You should just believe its wrong and just worry about worse things in life. You may think the Big Bang is wrong, but at the same time, you dont know what really happened. No one knows what really happened. Some people just think the Big Bang seems alittle more realistic than a God making the universe. Try not focusing on whats "wrong" and start just worrying about what you believe and what you think is right. Its so dumb to put down others beliefes or theories.
Rating: 5
Summary: Insightful and Thought-Provoking
Comment: From old Omni magazine to current Scientific American and Discover magazines, books and online sources, I have watched Big Bang theory from the sidelines as it has developed over the years. Initially, it made sense, but as the years progressed, especially in the years after the Hubble Space Telescope opened the far heavens to us. I've read the articles, I've seen tweak after tweak over the years, claims of past ability to predict (such as the temperature of the microwave background radiation at 2.7 K) that I know weren't agreed upon until after it was measured, and the like.
The real affront of current-day Big Bang Theory, however, seems to be reflected in a purported quote of Paul Dirac's: "It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment" (I doubt Dirac was quite so single-minded, but interviews definitely have him enamoured with such 'beauty') - the seeming belief that nature will bend to equations, rather than the other way around.
This book of Mr. Mitchell's is a clear, compelling tour of the troubles of Big Bang Theory, a survey of alternatives, and a reasonable alternative of his own.
It is an interesting, accessible look at the history of Big Bang Theory, the assumptions it makes, the contradictions it has had to deal with (age of the universe versus age of the most distant structures we can see), the telescope observations that get swept under the carpet, the politics, and some special attention to Big Bang Theory's somwhat new addition, Inflation Theory, and how this extension solves some problems, but seriously complicates others.
There is a lot of repetition in this book, some typos and some spots with emotionally charged language. There is also a plethora of readily accessible math, clear explanations, good organization, a bevy of TLAs (three-letter acronyms - seemingly unavoidable with all things astronomical) and some interesting astronomical observations.
Looking for the actual origin of the universe? You won't find it here, but you will find some compelling reasons to push the origin back, and you'll likely not look at Big Bang Theory in the same light ever again.
A highly recommended read.
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Title: The Big Bang Never Happened : A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe by Eric Lerner ISBN: 067974049X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science by Halton Arp ISBN: 0968368905 Publisher: Apeiron Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated by Tom Van Flandern ISBN: 1556432682 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: A Different Approach to Cosmology : From a Static Universe through the Big Bang towards Reality by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge, Jayant V. Narlikar ISBN: 0521662230 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 17 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist by Christopher Jon Bjerknes ISBN: 0971962987 Publisher: XTX, Inc. Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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