Breaking News from the NYT: “The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel”

PSI Blog 20230904 Breaking News from the NYT: “The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel”

 

Mainstream uncensors criticism of the Big Bang Theory

 

Photo credit: Virginia Gabrielli via the New York Times.

 

Thanks to Michael Larsen for this heads-up on a New York Times Guest Editorial by an astrophysicist and a theoretical physicist who dared to point out the cosmogonical crisis:

 

The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel

 

By Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser

 

These folks obviously have not read my list of 20 falsifications of the Big Bang Theory. They only mention the “elderly galaxies” in the James Webb photos, the problems getting the two different measurements of the Hubble constant to agree, and the lack of evidence for “Dark Energy.”

 

They include a couple egregious mistakes: 1) It is not true that Hubble discovered the expanding universe, which he doubted to the end and 2) It is not true there is no evidence for Dark Matter—Vera Rubin would have been aghast.

 

Here are some quotes:  

 

"There is, however, another possibility. We may be at a point where we need a radical departure from the standard model, one that may even require us to change how we think of the elemental components of the universe, possibly even the nature of space and time." 

 

"Working so close to the boundary between science and philosophy, cosmologists are continually haunted by the ghosts of basic assumptions hiding unseen in the tools we use..."

 

My pitch for over 4 decades and the subject of my most recent essay…

 

They mention the Copernicus, Darwin, and Einstein theories, correctly implying the Last Cosmological Revolution will be a big deal:   

 

"All three of those theories also ended up having enormous cultural influence — threatening our sense of our special place in the cosmos, challenging our intuition that we were fundamentally different than other animals, upending our faith in common sense ideas about the flow of time. Any scientific revolution of the sort we’re imagining would presumably have comparable reverberations in our understanding of ourselves.

The philosopher Robert Crease has written that philosophy is what’s required when doing more science may not answer a scientific question. It’s not clear yet if that’s what’s needed to overcome the crisis in cosmology. But if more tweaks and adjustments don’t do the trick, we may need not just a new story of the universe but also a new way to tell stories about it."

 

I suggest the authors start by recognizing their own “ghosts of basic assumptions hiding unseen” in their own closets. They might consider unabashedly changing their titles to “cosmogonists,” which is what they are.

 

 

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