Steady State Theory
Abstract
The Big Bang is still only a theory. While it may be more appealing to scientists than Creationism, it is not the only scientific theory of creation. I contend that recent scientific discoveries lend more credence to an earlier scientific theory of creation, the Steady State theory.
The Steady State theory suggested that matter is continuously created in outer space. It does not require belief in a "singularity," i.e. that the entire universe exploded from nothing for no apparent reason, obeying laws of physics that were valid only at that single instant of the Big Bang. It does not require belief in an "inflationary period" to explain why the universe changed from the energy distribution the Big Bang predicts into the currently observed universe. Most importantly, it does not require belief in "Dark Energy." If there were no Big Bang, it would not be necessary to postulate "Dark Energy" to explain the discrepancies recently observed in predictions based on the Big Bang.
I submit that belief in the Big Bang has begun to resemble belief in Creationism: The Big Bang belief is based more on faith in a favored myth than a rational consideration of the scientific evidence. Now let us reconsider that evidence. One of the pillars of the Big Bang theory was Irwin Hubbel's observation that there is a red shift in the light from distant stars. The farther the star, the greater the shift. This led to the hypothesis that the red shift was a Doppler effect, caused by the stars flying away from Earth. It was further supposed that a Big Bang had caused those stars to fly apart.
The contradictory evidence: Dr. Tifft, an astronomer at the University of Arizona at Phoenix, carefully observed red shifts. Because our planet and solar system are moving, Dr. Tifft realized this movement would contribute to any red shift we observed. He therefore factored out our own movement. What he discovered, is that the remaining red shifts of distant stars occur in quantum leaps. This is not consistent with the theory that said shifts are caused by a doppler effect. Another mechanism appears to be at work. Dr. Tifft has advanced his own theory to account to account for his observations. Whether or not his theory is true is not relevant to the present discussion. It is sufficent that he has shown the red shift is not a doppler effect, hence it does not support the Big Bang theory. Because his observations contradict the reigning scientific myth, they have largely been ignored. Attempts to refute his observations, have only confirmed them.
Simultaneously, the Casimir effect has been confirmed. Casimir was a pioneer of quantum mechanics. Studying the equations of quantum mechanics, he postulated that sub atomic particles could spontaneously spring in and out of existence. He claimed to have verified this experimentally, but his results have only recently been confirmed by an experiment conducted by Dr. Stanley Landeroux. If sub atomic particles have been shown to spring into existence, it is not a far leap to suppose that under certain circumstances such sub atomic particles might coalese into in a particle, e.g. an atom of helium. Such a particle, being stable, would remain in existence. Such particles could then aglomerate, due to gravitational forces, into stars, and eventually form the observed universe.
To be sure, the Steady State theory, as originally postulated, has its own problems. I submit that the problems of the Big Band: the requirement that we believe in a "singularity," the requirement that we believe in an "inflationary period," and now the requirement that we believe in "Dark Energy," compell us to reconsider the Steady State theory.
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