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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Did the Big Bang Happen? Brian Keating on The Morning Wire (#260)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Newly released photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have allowed scientists to view farther into space, and farther into the past, than ever before. The images emerging are raising questions about the origins of our universe. One viral article from independent scientist Eric Lerner made the rounds on social media in recent weeks with its provocative claim that the Big Bang never happened. We speak to UC San Diego Professor of Cosmology Brian Keating about what the images show, and what we can and can’t conclude from them. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Connect with Brian Keating: 🏄‍♂️ 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.

0:15.7

Newly released photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have allowed scientists to view farther into space and farther into the past than ever before.

0:29.0

The image is emerging or raising questions about what we thought we knew about the early universe.

0:34.6

One viral article from independent scientist and author Eric Lerner made the rounds on social

0:39.5

media in recent weeks with its provocative claim that the Big Bang never happened.

0:43.4

Lerner claims that the images provide evidence that the Big Bang theory is flawed.

0:48.8

He also leveled accusations at the astronomy community of censorship and refusal to acknowledge contradictory

0:54.3

evidence to the widely accepted theory. In this episode of Morning Wire we speak to

0:59.2

UC San Diego professor of cosmology Brian Keating about what the images show and what we of And this is your Sunday edition of Morning Wire.

1:16.0

Now, right off the bat, for listeners who are interested,

1:19.0

learner's article is widely available online

1:22.0

as well as numerous detailed critiques and we were not able to reach him for comments but his claims are fairly straightforward so I'm going to do my best to sum them up.

1:31.0

He basically says the images of galaxies we're seeing don't match

1:35.6

predictions made by the Big Bang Theory for a few reasons. First, he says they're

1:41.5

too small. He cites an optical illusion that we would expect to see given the expansion theorized by the Big Bang.

1:48.0

He says, because the light would have left these distant galaxies when they were much closer to us, they should appear much larger than

1:55.2

they do. The fact that they appear quite small, he says, suggests that they're either extraordinarily

2:01.2

small intrinsically so as to overcompensate for that optical illusion, which he says

2:06.3

would make them implausibly small, or the Big Bang prediction itself is wrong. He also says these galaxies appear too

2:15.5

mature to have formed just four to five hundred million years after the Big Bang.

2:19.8

He says the fact that the galaxies are tidy and round rather than chaotic

2:25.1

suggests that they're older than four to five hundred million years, which again

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