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I'm currently reading "The big bang never happened" by Eric Lerner which makes a case for a plasma theory of the universe. Even though I'm a physicist by traini

I'm currently reading "The big bang never happened" by Eric Lerner which makes a case for a plasma theory of the universe. Even though I'm a physicist by training I don't know enough about the subject to make an assessment. He made a youtube series about it that is... well let's say he focused on the content rather than production value. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkhRibBllU&list=PLBg1fqjrUVrnOnOzcry3ilvOH6iOxV56m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkhRibBllU&list=PLBg1fqjrUV...

Ste_Evans 5y ago
Eric Lerner is a writer not a physicist. We have no idea whether the universe had a beginning or not, it can't even be formulated as a testable scientific question. The observable universe expanded from 13.7 bya, when it was miniscule, until today. That's all we know. Here's what is actually known explained for the interested layperson by a competent physicist: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/09/where-did-big-bang-happen.html http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/09/where-did-big-bang-...