Cult of the Big Bang Was There a Bang?

by William C. Mitchell

240 page paperback, includes 5 technical illustrations, bibliography, name & subject indexes. Lib. of Cong. Cat. Card No. 94-78655 Published Nov. 30, 1995 by Cosmic Sense Books, P. O. Box 3472, Carson... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964318806
• ISBN13: 9780964318809
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Cosmic Sense Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A definitive exposure of incomplete scientific "knowing"

I am woefully unqualified to review this book, but I feel that I did get enough out of it to discuss it somewhat intelligently. I have taken the time over the last few years to read science books that challenge the various high priesthoods of science, from the men who say they know that Darwinian evolution explains the development all life, to the men who claim they can tell us within less than a second when and how the universe came about. These hallowed guardians of the gates of truth tell us w/o the slightest doubt that in addition to what they know about what happened in the past, that therefore they can assure us that it was all a big accident and has no meaning for us individually or collectively. But maybe they (and their scientism) don't know as much as they claim, as Mr. Mitchell's interesting and *very* challenging book documents in astonishing detail! When you study the Big Bang theory (BBT), you see that what cosmologists have done is use theories, yes only theories, of particle physics to prove the BBT, which is saying that what goes on at the sub-atomic level also explains "the whole shebang." If the theories don't match the data, the cosmologists invent some new theory, like inflation, which then somehow exactly fits the data that caused the inconsistency, and thus "proves" once again that the theory is correct. This cycle has repeated itself many times with the BBT. Because of the connection between BBT and particle physics, Mr. Mitchell includes a rather amazing discussion of this topic as one of the first chapters, along with relativity and quantum physics. I had no idea that there were so many types and varieties of particles determined by physicists! Next, he presents a very good discussion of the history of the BBT, and immediately starts his relentless critique of many, many serious problems with BBT. For example, the whole idea that there was a singularity that exploded into the universe itself violates many laws of physics. Then he discusses the smoothness issue, which is that the universe is full of irregularities that violate the BBT. In the next chapter Mitchell tells us that there is not one version of BBT, but there are actually three: the flat, open, and closed BBT universes. Throughout the remainder of the book the author shows the problems and contradictions with each version of BBT, in a discussion that often left me confused, but at least I understood his logic! Not surprising, after all, we are dealing with the whole universe! I will mention only four more of a plethora of issues that are discussed in the remainder of the book. 1) BB cosmologists have determined that 90-99% of the physical universe must be dark matter for the BBT to be correct, but, believe it or not, they have not as far as I know definitely identified any! On a similar note, I might also mention that I am still seeing articles in "Science News" where cosmologists are saying that they think they've found an "event horizon,