Joel Kontinen
Cosmic inflation or the unexpected acceleration of the baby universe for no known reason is not the only serious problem with the Big Bang.
The other dilemmas include quantum fluctuations, dark matter, dark energy, too rapidly forming galaxies and missing antimatter.
The very idea of a quantum fluctuation hardly sounds like science.
Recently, some researchers acknowledged that they doubt the existence of dark energy.
Early galaxies grew too fast for the Big Bang.
And then there’s the issue of antimatter. Or, to put it more precisely: There isn’t any antimatter, although there should be, if the Big Bang were true.
This is no laughing matter. ABS Science says:
“The Standard Model of particle physics — which accurately describes all the particles and interactions that make up our universe — says our universe shouldn't exist.
Or at least, the matter that makes up all the stuff in existence shouldn't be here. It should have been wiped out by the matching antimatter that was created with it in the first second after the Big Bang.”
The BB should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter, but the antimatter has obvious gone AWOL and is not about to return.
Matter and antimatter would have destroyed each other, thus leaving no universe for us to study.
Each particle (electron, proton, neutron etc.) should have a matching antiparticle with the opposite charge.
Researchers are currently trying to simulate the assumed conditions following the Big Bang. They are smashing particles together near the speed of light in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in order to figure out how the world of matter got rid of the antimatter.
But all the facts suggest that there never was a Big Bang. The BB has to be propped up with unknown and totally hypothetical entities or features to keep it alive.
Some of the attempts used in bolstering up faith in an old solar system are beginning to sound like the epicycles that were used to explain the movements of the planets in the ancient Ptolemaic (geocentric) system.
An even more desperate attempt is to speculate about multiverses or multiple universes that are totally unscientific.
Source:
Hobbs, Bernie. 2016. The antimatter mystery: Annihilation and a universe that shouldn't exist. ABS Science (24 June).
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