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In reply to the discussion: No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning [View all]rogerashton
(3,920 posts)35. My point was just
that changes in the model can be refinements rather than rejection of the basic ideas. The big bang model has been changed -- "inflation" is a relatively recent refinement -- while by contrast, the steady state model has just been rejected, there seeming to be no way that it could be tweaked to agree with the evidence we had by midcentury.
Then again -- Tycho Brahe managed to tweak the model with the earth at the center of the universe so that it fit the evidence he had better than Copernicus' sun-centered model. So we may see some reversals of our ideas as we learn more.
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I hope the graphic is wrong, because a theory predicting stars first formed 400 million years ago
struggle4progress
Feb 2015
#1
Relgion and Cosmology are two major sources of theories about the origin of the univese.
Agnosticsherbet
Feb 2015
#18
The degree to which a layperson can really understand this is questionable, imo.
cbayer
Feb 2015
#23
Seeing as how both Time and Space were a function of the BB, there was no "before" it
Vincardog
Feb 2015
#54