Popular Mechanics Panders to Absurd Big Bang Theory

 PSI Blog 20230320 Popular Mechanics Panders to Absurd Big Bang Theory

 

Another “heat death of the universe” misprediction fits our doom and gloom era.

 

Lights out for the whole universe. Photo Discredit: Popular Mechanics.

 

If you aren’t depressed enough by current events, here is your chance to go full scale. It seems one can get any kind of nonsense published if you follow the party line provided by today’s cosmogonists (those who assume the universe had a beginning). I have critiqued the universal heat death trope in some detail many times.

 

Whenever you read about universal heat death, you know that the Eighth Assumption of Religion, finity (The universe is finite, both in the microcosmic and macrocosmic directions) still holds sway. I use such popular claims to monitor the overall health of the Big Bang Theory. It appears to be doing just fine despite the James Webb Space Telescope revelations and the 20 falsifications I listed here so far.

 

Normally, New Scientist (“the most popular weekly science and technology magazine in the world”) is the premier propagandist for the Big Bang Theory. Looks like Popular Mechanics is desperate for an increase in circulation.

 

I don’t recommend reading this latest Donny Downer unless you are still a believer in finity. The paralogistics go like this: Everything in the universe has a beginning and an ending, so the finite universe must follow that too. Of course, this non sequitur is removed once you assume infinity.

 

 Your Handbook For the End of the Universe

 

Here is a bit about the author who, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, appears especially well-qualified for spreading the last cosmogony:

 

“PAUL M. SUTTER

Paul M. Sutter is a science educator and a theoretical cosmologist at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and the author of How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena and Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence. Sutter is also the host of various science programs, and he’s on social media. Check out his Ask a Spaceman podcast and his YouTube page.”

Sutter’s awful conclusion is:

 

“If dark energy continues to dominate the universe and the expansion of the cosmos continues, we now encounter what’s known as the heat death of the universe. The present epoch of our cosmos features vast energy and heat differences, but the iron laws of thermodynamics dictate that eventually those differences will vanish.

 

The universe—what’s left of it—will reach thermal equilibrium, with no significant heat differences remaining. And that temperature will continue to drop, slowly approaching, but never quite reaching, absolute zero. With that death of heat comes the death of any form of life, no matter how exotic and alien.”

Egads!