The Daily Skunk

Feast or Famine around here when it comes to me posting on the skunk.

I’m sure you all must think I don’t do anything else, but sit on the skunk. Not true, I just have to post ideas when they are fresh and sometimes I will have to stop and come back to one post several times throughout the day to finish it. I choose to make the time… “it’s like my pleasure in other peoples leisure”.

Anyway, tonight I was driving and listening to the local AM radio and heard a very interesting interview.

The guy being interviewed is a physicist (don’t know who just caught this briefly) and they were talking about several ideas, but they touched briefly on the weakness of the big bang theory. They weren’t suggesting creationism, but what the guy said was very intriguing and something that I haven’t really considered before - therefore very skunkworthy.

The first thing relating to this is the “Horizon Problem” which is based on the fact that the temperature across the universe is uniform and how we presently understand galaxies and time isn’t in accordance with the big bang theory. The 2 important points are: 1) If the Big Bang actually happened this would have created a massive influx in temperature, essentially creating a high gradient of temperature across space that could not have evened out by our present time. 2) The way we view and understand galaxies is based on the speed of light, the basic connection and its confliction with the bang theory also relates to the fact that the lack of variation of physical properties within our univerese is inconsistent with the bang. Since these are the case and there is only very, very speculative suggestions as to why these things do exist, it seems reasonable to me that the big bang didn’t happen.

The other problem with the big bang is that it says that there was nothing before the bang and what I’m about to say isn’t my original thought. By saying there was nothing before the big bang theory it inadvertantly imples that there was “time” before the bang. So, the big bang theory contradicts itself.

Through my searching I did find some other very interesting ideas which really deserve their own post, but I’ve done enough already.

Check this out, Look at the “the string theories“.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy all these thoughts, they were new to me. Hopefully they are intriguing to you as well.