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Originally Posted by Chip
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Originally Posted by Sam5
...This estimate changes about every 20-50 years, and it has been changing for the past 500 years. It has changed all during my lifetime...
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Cosmology concepts and theories have indeed changed, and seem to be changing more rapidly in recent times. The point is, there is no evidence that the universe was born just like a conventional spherical fireworks explosion, filling a pre-existing space. If it were, observation and physics would be different from what is observed. |
I certainly don’t know how it started. This question has been puzzling mankind for the past 50,000 years. But this “expanding space” nonsense is new and it’s designed to keep Einstein’s “speed limit of ‘c’” seem wrong. That’s all it’s for. This didn’t start until a decade or so ago, when they began finding galaxies with redshifts that suggest they are superluminal. Before that, they went with the “explosion theory”, although they didn’t like it very much. They avoid the “explosion” idea right now just by not talking about the “beginning”. That’s why Eddington invented the “balloon model” in the 1930s, to take the general public’s mind off asking questions about “the beginning” and where the "center" was located. Eddington said in a book in 1933 that we are located "in the skin of the balloon", and that was baloney too.