The bottom two-thirds of a cosmological iceberg ?

From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 19:28:07 MST

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    Science Frontiers, No. 146, Mar-Apr, 2003, p. 2

    ASTRONOMY

    The bottom two-thirds of a cosmological iceberg?

    In 1997, T. Van Flandern listed ten of the top unsolved problems facing the
    Big Bang hypothesis. (SF#116) Actually, he was holding fire, for there are
    many more than ten---despite those almost weekly weakly assurances in the
    science press that the Big Bang has now been fully proven to be solid fact!

    Perhaps these frequent sales pitches of the Big Bangers goaded Van Flandern
    to mention[ed] *twenty more* problems with this paradigm that so tightly
    enchains and debilitates cosmological thinking. It would seem that a
    paradigm with a total of at least thirty large cracks in its facade would
    crumble. But, this is apparently not happening!

    Anyhow, we don't have space to list all of Van Flandern's twenty
    additional Big Bang problems. Four added to the ten in SF#116 will have to
    suffice.

       *The Big Bang predicts that equal amounts of matter and antimatter
        were created. If so, we don't know what happened to all the
        antimatter.

       *The Big Bang violates the First Law of Thermodynamics by requiring
        that new space in the expanding universe be filled with "zero-point"
        energy.

       *Redshifts are quantized for both galaxies and quasars, as are some
        other properties of the galaxies. All this is verboten under
        Big Bang rules.

       *Big Bang theory requires that the fine-structure constant must vary
        with time; a claimed but controversial phenomenon.

    (Van Flandern, Tom; "The Top 30 Problems with the Big Bang," *Infinite
    Energy,* 8:10, no. 46, 2002.) 

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