Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 1976
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976rech....7..610a&link_type=abstract
La Recherche, vol. 7, July-Aug. 1976, p. 610-616. In French.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Astronomical Models, Big Bang Cosmology, Relativistic Theory, Background Radiation, Homogeneity, Isotropy, Mass Distribution, Nucleogenesis, Radio Astronomy, Red Shift
Scientific paper
Present-day general-relativistic models and conjectures in cosmology are compared to prescientific models and myths. The Big Bang expanding-universe model is challenged as not empirically confirmed (with respect to nucleogenesis, predicted isotropy and homogeneity of the universe, mean density of matter in the universe, redshift data, isothermal background radiation), as a dogma paralleling Christian mythology, and as analogous to the Ptolemaic system in the response of its supporters to disconfirming evidence. Overreliance on general-relativistic mathematization at variance with physical significance, and pushing of conjectures into reaches of space and (past) time beyond possibilities of validation and confirmation are noted as cosmological mythologizing factors. Rival cosmological models (continued creation of matter, steady-state universe) are not endorsed.
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