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Originally Posted by Gary L
It might have been quiet from down here, but you would have heard it up there.
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a) There is no sound in space, as there is no medium for sound to travel through
b) There wasn't a "down here", as up there was just being created.
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Originally Posted by Gary L
I don't know if he was even around at the event. but surely something colossal as the earth being created it would mean that anything outside/within/around it wouldn't survive?
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The universe came into being 13 billion years ago (approx), whilst our Solar System formed approx 5 billion years ago - two different events.
And you appear to be confusing physics with metaphysics.
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Originally Posted by downquark1
I want a source for this statement
I may learn something by reading it.
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Not a book, but a
link
And
this
"
Big Bang Theory - The Only Plausible Theory?
Is the standard Big Bang theory the only model consistent with these evidences? No, it's just the most popular one. Internationally renown Astrophysicist George F. R. Ellis explains: "People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations….For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations….You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that."4
In 2003, Physicist Robert Gentry proposed an attractive alternative to the standard theory, an alternative which also accounts for the evidences listed above.5 Dr. Gentry claims that the standard Big Bang model is founded upon a faulty paradigm (the Friedmann-lemaitre expanding-spacetime paradigm) which he claims is inconsistent with the empirical data. He chooses instead to base his model on Einstein's static-spacetime paradigm which he claims is the "genuine cosmic Rosetta." Gentry has published several papers outlining what he considers to be serious flaws in the standard Big Bang model.6 Other high-profile dissenters include Nobel laureate Dr. Hannes Alfvén, Professor Geoffrey Burbidge, Dr. Halton Arp, and the renowned British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle, who is accredited with first coining the term "the Big Bang" during a BBC radio broadcast in 1950. "