(August 29, 2011 at 11:28 pm)theVOID Wrote: Great, now you have to account for the observed red-shifts of type 1-a supernovae, please present your math. As it stands, 'Dark energy', some anti-gravitational force leading to spatial expansion, is our best explanation - If you think you've got a better way to account for the observed phenomenon it's up to you to show that this explanation is more plausible.
Dark Energy was proposed to explain an observation, the evidence is for some phenomenon that is causing the accelerated expansion of space, for now that is all we know and we have extremely good evidence supporting the existence of this phenomenon.
Also, there WAS a big bang theory prior to the proposal of Dark Energy, so even there is some other better explanation for the observations it DOES NOT rule out a big bang - It might change the age of the universe and give us a different picture of the total percent of components of the universe but that's about it.
Ok one more, it is 4:30am where I am lol.
Once again of course BB came before Dark energy, dark energy was never needed before the issues arose around the BB theory now all of a sudden we apparently have dark energy ..... don't get me started on red shifts because that too has it's problems.
These are good questions so I will address them properly tomorrow but I would like to leave you with one more thing ....
The "age" of the Universe keeps being proposed according to the BB theory as its base platform on when to start judging it.
My issue is this it currently is being based on the observable universe and has several times been altered to fit with new discoveries i.e we now arrive at post dark energy era, however it has been raised that the probability of the Universe being larger than we suspect (a lot larger) is problematic for the BB model.
If the Universe is nigh on infinite then it is impossible for a singular point of creation simply because it cannot be possible that in 14 billion years the entire universe was created ..... simply its far to big.
Let me know what you think of the vid.
