Claim: The Big Bang NEVER Happened? (#252)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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By popular demand, I'll present 10 reasons why I believe Eric Lerner's article, based on his 30 year old book of nearly the same name, "The Big Bang Never Happened" is wrong, as well as some legitimate claims he raises. Join me for some live questions and maybe some answers. Along the way, I'll provide insight into how I review such claims and how you can too even if you're not a professional cosmologist to judge for yourself Resources: https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215 UCLA Professor Ned Wright: Errors in the "The Big Bang Never Happened": https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/lerner_errors.html Watch my deep dive into the physics of the Big Bang nucleosynthesis: https://youtu.be/XLT05w79c64 T There's been lots of speculation in the popular press claiming the Big Bang never happened. Supposedly, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope presents a crisis for an old universe that emerged from a hot dense plasma, in favor of a much more ancient cosmology -- a plasma cosmology. Yet the underpinnings of the Big Bang are more solid than ever, thanks in large part to the fossil evidence astrophysicists have found of primordial nucleosynthesis, also called BBN. Join me for a deep-dive into the physics of the formation of the elements, perhaps the most indisputable evidence for the hot Big Bang there is. Connect with me: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Join Shortform through my link Shortform.com/impossible and you’ll receive 5 days of unlimited access and an additional 20% discounted annual subscription! Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! Can you do me a favor? Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. 🎙️On Spotify it’s here 🎧 On Audible it’s here Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon or become a Member on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Open the pod bay doors, please help.
0:16.0	I am quite, uh, interested to review this recent article that I saw published last week.
0:26.7	It's not really a publication.
0:28.7	It's really a comment, maybe a Jeremiah, I don't know how else to describe it. So I want to take this opportunity to go through this popular article called the Big Bang didn't happen and I want to address some of the concerns
0:49.0	that I've heard about it from professional colleagues, some outright just dismissing it, calling it utter nonsense,
0:56.6	not worthy of contention.
1:00.4	But I don't think it's entirely as instructive to just outright dismiss it and say it's completely wrong,
1:08.0	even though I'm going to outline 10 reasons why I do think it's wrong.
1:12.0	And I want to do that more as a way to describe
1:16.8	How to look at scientific popularization and when media claims are made how do you know if it's click bait if you're not a professional scientist?
1:26.0	There's a famous saying, it might be Carl Sagan, it takes ten times as much emphasis to refute, I think he's a nonsense or BS. We'll keep it clean in case any of my kids come through the room.
1:41.2	But it takes 10 times as much energy, let's say, to refute a claim
1:46.8	then to make a claim. And yet, the claim for such a wavy topic as saying the Big Bang didn't happen, really the onus is on the claimant,
1:58.4	not on the proponents of the current paradigm.
2:02.1	Doesn't mean the paradigm is entirely correct on an outline
2:05.0	some of the things in the article that I think, you know,
2:10.0	they're worthy of, you know, further investigation perhaps but I want to take this opportunity as
2:16.2	again my role in this channel and my podcast is to teach you to think as
2:20.0	scientifically as possible if you're a scientist or a non-scientist if you're a scientist or non-scientist,
2:23.8	if you're a graduate student,
2:25.5	I kind of think of this as kind of like office hours
2:28.0	and wanting to portray it in a way that anybody can understand and hopefully get insight into the nature of which of these
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