Posted: Jan 28, 2020 2:54 pm
Spearthrower wrote:Hawking's position is an attempt to appear 'novel' within the context of the Big Bang theory due to the politics involved.
The politics involved.
HA!
Not the evidence, the scientific discourse, the years of research... no, it's political - but only because you want to politicize it so you can pretend it's not scientific.
I think that you are doing Scott Mayers a disservice here, Spearthrower. What he is saying is precisely as science stands today: observation tells us that the universe is expanding i.e., from a very specific point in time. This is the inflation model of the universe based upon observation, the big bang model. However, the maths in quantum physics leads to an infinite universe i.e., the steady state model. Both are based upon observation, but they do not agree.