Errors in the Big Bang Never Happened (#255)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 3 September 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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There's been speculation in the popular press, primarily by Eric Lerner ( @LPPFusion ), 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. Prof. Lewis and I will present flaws in Eric Lerner's article, loosely based on his 30-year-old book of nearly the same name, "The Big Bang Never Happened", and evidence that contradicts his claims about the so-called crisis. Slides will be posted to my mailing list briankeating.com/list 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 us for a deep dive into the physics of the formation of the elements, the redshift distance relation, and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation -- perhaps the most indisputable evidence for the hot Big Bang there is. We will provide insight into how I review such claims and how you can too even if you're not a professional cosmologist: judge for yourself. Resources: Lerner's article https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215 Peebles’s Anomalies In Cosmology https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05018 Lerner's first reply to criticism from me and Dr Becky, and Ethan Siegel: https://youtu.be/360aZiIWdjQ from LPPFusion with Eric Lerner replying to @drbecky Anton Petrov @WhatDaMath Ethan Siegel @StartsWithABang And others in new series on Big Bang Never Happened Debate. #BigBang #BigBangNeverHappened #JWST @DrBecky presentation https://youtu.be/Fqfap3v0xxw @Anton Petrov analysis https://youtu.be/Y2DOCWyyhdI UCLA Professor Ned Wright: Errors in the "The Big Bang Never Happened: https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/lerner_errors.html Follow Allison Kirkpatrick https://twitter.com/AkAstronomy Ethan Siegel https://twitter.com/StartsWithABang https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/has-jwst-disproven-big-bang/ Watch my first video on this controversy: https://youtu.be/SYeUkVqDZjA Watch my deep dive into the physics of the Big Bang nucleosynthesis: https://youtu.be/XLT05w79c64 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	Welcome everybody out on the internet, wherever you may be listening to this,
0:24.0	on YouTube, Twitter, elsewhere, or as a podcast
0:29.0	on the Into the Impossible Podcast Network.
0:32.0	Welcome to you and to my friend Professor Garrett Lewis and
0:36.3	there's no one I'd rather get into this controversy with as our guests might say
0:41.8	than the new Garrett who's phenomenal thinker, a esteemed
0:47.3	colleague and an eminent cosmologist and I'm just delighted that you could join us to talk about these controversies.
0:55.2	As you know, I talk quite frequently about the Orthodox, but also some of the unorthodox things in cosmology.
1:01.5	So first I want to ask you what's life like on
1:03.7	Friday the the second of September down under. Oh it's pretty good
1:09.3	spring is arriving and it's warming up it's looking very nice outside.
1:13.2	Ah, fantastic, yes.
1:15.1	And one of the lottery numbers I should be playing on Friday.
1:17.4	Ah, unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.
1:21.9	It doesn't work that way unfortunately.
1:24.0	Well, it's a delight to have you here and I thought we'd get right into it and talk about this, this, you know, so-called alleged crisis and panic that's taken over our field.
1:35.4	I don't know if you are suffering from the panic all the way down under, but up here in the
1:41.5	U.S. at least it made quite a splash I've been quoted in several different venues and and
1:48.0	One of the reasons I enjoy speaking with you is I think that you're a sober voice of reason who like me
1:55.7	Doesn't shy away from the controversy and likes to use it as a teachable moment both for
2:02.1	Professionals but also for the non-professionals it as a teachable moment, both for professionals,
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