Why Isn’t Anyone Seriously Challenging The Big Bang?

“So what happened over the past few decades, that all of the major challenges to the Big Bang have fallen away? Two major events: the collection of large suites of high-quality data, which validated the Big Bang’s major predictions to incredibly high precision, and the fact that the main advocates of the alternatives — once they no longer became defensible on their own merits — got old and died.

If any scientifically viable alternatives to the Big Bang ever arise, almost every modern cosmologist would thoroughly welcome it, and then immediately put it to the test. The problem is that every such alternative is already ruled out by the evidence in hand. Until an idea arises that meets those necessary criteria, the Big Bang will stand alone as the only idea compatible with the full suite of data we now possess.”

Today, there are no serious scientific alternatives to the Big Bang. Many people, dissatisfied with this, have derided the status quo. But the truth is that you have to align with our observed and measured data, and no alternative to the Big Bang will do.

Here’s why every attempt we’ve ever tried has failed, and why the only viable “alternatives” still very much have a Big Bang as part of them.