We must bring the sensually perceptible world and that
imaginable
by definitions into accordance.
Whenever observation data pile up which don’t fit that theory competent
for their explanation, the science faculty branches into different
groups.
Presently, the cosmology faces this situation. The conservative group
keeps
clinging to the big bang theory, the standard model of cosmology, and
tries
to integrate new experimental findings by modified or supplementary
theories.
The “progress” group, growing constantly in the past years, nurses
doubts
towards the correctness of the big bang theory. Some even believe it is
going to fail altogether, due to available observation data.
For instance, Halton Arp [4] and Hans Joerg Fahr [5] point out no
distance-
depending age structure exists as demanded by the big bang theory, but
new galaxies and stars build up at all times and in all places of the
cosmos.
Even in our cosmic vicinity, a young proto galaxy is believed
found, which has not even has started to build massive stars [5].
According to the conventional theory, there should be large quantities
of diffusely distributed hydrogen gas un the universe
[4], p. 120: “ But objects mainly consisting of uncondensed
hydrogen
simply cannot be found.”
Halton Arp therefore believes the big bang no longer presents a viable
theory and must be replaced by the continuous creation of matter. Will
the big bang really be abandoned, as H. J. Fahr [5] has predicted? This
question is, in my opinion, by far not clearly decided as yet, because
the big bang theory was, just recently, coercively confirmed by
measurements
again:
The Hubble space telescope and the 10 meter Keck telescope in
Hawaii were able to collect important information on the properties of
the intergalactic medium and on cosmic background radiation in far
distances
which are in agreement with predictions of the big bang theory [6]. At
first, it was detected an extensively ionized helium plasma exists
between
the galaxy heaps, hereby supporting the statement of the big bang
theory,
helium must have already existed in the very early universe.
At second, it was measured the temperature of the cosmic background
radiation increases with distance, i. e. with growing red shift, which
is also in agreement with the big bang theory. This provokes the
question
whether the big bang theory can be modified in such a way that it can
sufficiently
explain all observed data. Probably, we only need a new point of
reference
from which the world appears to us in such a way the main problems of
the
big bang theory (problem of the horizon, problem of galaxy formation,
problem
of planenarity) are solved all by themselves?
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