While the Big Bang theory dominates as the only valid theory of our cosmic origins, Space.com helps us with some alternative theories in their article entitled, “Alternatives to Big Bang Theory Explained“.
They are (and you can read more details by Clicking Here):
- Steady State – Steady State theory proposes a continuous creation of matter throughout the universe to explain the universe’s apparent expansion. A Steady State universe would be infinite; without a beginning or end. However, evidence found since the mid-1960s indicates that this theory is incorrect.
- Eternal Inflation theory – Eternal Inflation theory proposes a universe that rapidly expanded during a brief period called inflation. This theory proposes that inflation has not stopped, and has been going on for infinite time. This theory proposes new universes coming into existence in a vast complex called the multiverse.
- Oscillating Model – The Oscillating theory proposes an endless series of Big Bangs, followed by a Big Crunch that restarted the cycle. The oscillating model is endless cycles.
- String Theory – The String theory proposes a universe that is in reality nothing like what it appears like in our observations. It is actually a flat hologram projected onto the surface of a sphere; or our universe could be a completely digital simulation running on a large computer.
While the above theories are interesting to discuss, sky surveys and deep field measurements has revealed a Universe consistent with the Big Bang theory – ruling out alternatives listed above. The evolution of the elemental abundances that we observe today demonstrate the validity of the Big Bang.
Nevertheless, the Big Bang theory is the present scientific explanation of creation. The Big Bang theory proposes that the expansion of our universe began with an explosion of a single particle approximately 13.7 million years ago.
The Big Bang theory appeared in a Belgium paper in 1927, by Georges Lemaître. The Big Bang theory was a unaccepted departure from scientific orthodoxy in the 1930s. Nearly all astronomers were unaccepting of the idea that the universe came from an explosion and was expanding. The theory was quite frankly preposterous. Even Albert Einstein rejected the theory at first.
It was not until years later that Edwin Hubble, using the world’s largest telescope at Mt. Wilson, California, showed that the all distant galaxies appeared to be accelerating away from our Milky Way galaxy at speeds proportional to their distances.
According to American Museum of Natural History, it was not until May 20, 1964, Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered Cosmetic Background Microwave (CBM) radiation. They were radio astronomers and working in Holmdel, New Jersey at the 50-foot-long Bell Telephone Laboratory’s Horn Antenna.
With Georges Lemaître’s theory, and Edwin Hubble’s observations and Wilson and Penzias’s discovery of CBM, the Big Bang theory is science’s explanation of creation.
However, the Big Bang theory does many questions that are yet addressed. You can find those questions at:
The Beginning of the Universe by Clicking Here.
Go to our Start Here page and begin examining the scientific evidence on why the theory of evolution is failed.