uwot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:53 am
Cerveny wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:02 pmBelief in the BB ("immaculate conception" in physics) needs very passionate believers…
If you believe that the universe is expanding, which is by far the most compelling explanation of a whole heap of data,
LOL The universe is expanding explanation, from a so-called 'whole heap of data', is as compelling an explanation as the sun revolves around earth, from the 'whole heap of data' that those people were 'using'.
The universe is expanding is NOT the most compelling explanation, from the ACTUAL 'data' AT ALL.
But, in the days when this was being written, there were those people who BELIEVED that an 'expanding universe' was the 'most compelling explanation', just like there were those people who BELIEVED that the 'sun revolved around the earth' was also the 'most compelling explanation'.
Some people really did NOT like to look at things from any other perspective other than from the perspective from their OWN thoughts, beliefs, and/or assumptions.
uwot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:53 am
then you too can work out that it used to be smaller.
This should have been a SURE SIGN to NOT take seriously the universe is expanding explanation, but obviously some people really did.
uwot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:53 am
That you can wind back the clock to a time when the universe was very small indeed, is the essence of the big bang theory.
And that 'essence' of that 'theory' should have triggered those people into the absurdity of that idea. Instead that ridiculous notion actually made some people BELIEVE their OWN assumptions and beliefs more.
uwot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:53 am
By 'immaculate conception' I take it you mean some version according to which the big bang occurred in a vacuum. Perhaps there are some passionate believers of that, but it is only one option, and not the most plausible.
What are the other options, and, what is the most plausible one to you?
Let us SEE just how much you really know, and what you will really share with us.
uwot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:53 am
I don't know why the big bang happened, I'm just confident that it did.
Why the so-called 'big bang' happened is for the exact same reason why ALL of the other 'bangs' happen.
They are ALL just a very natural and normal part of the way the Universe actually and irrefutably works.
They happen because there is NO way that they could not have happened and will continue to happen.
They happen because this is HOW the Universe actually works.