James Webb and the Crisis of the Big Bang Theory
Spectre of Communism
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Is It a Paradigm Shift in Cosmology?
In the 1920s there was a debate over whether nebulae were galaxies in their own right or just smudges of light on the night sky. Now we see that they're mature galaxies and have clearly taken a long time to evolve, he says. The empirical law we see for this little corner of the universe is taken as the last word by many scientists - but it's actually not true. George Lometra's theory of big bank cosmology did not fit the facts of observations one-hundred years ago," writes David Wheeler.
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