As always, I like to check the sources of these things to see if it has validity and looking at this one, its published in Physics Letters B, in the theories section, not in the cosmological or physics section. I am unsure if Physics Letters B theories get peer reviewed at this point so I issue a caution that this is just an interesting discussion of possibilities that can lead to really interesting stuff than something that is super solid (for the time being).
In essence the physicists Ahmed Farag Ali (Center for Fundamental Physics, Giza, Egypt) and Saurya Das (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada), both active university professors in their respective institutions, have collaborated to look at the math that describes the formation and movements of the universe in a very different way.
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Left: Ahmed Farag Ali. Right: Saurya Das |
This link gives a good analysis summary of the paper itself. Well written I must say.
In summary, what Prof Ali and Prof Das did was to substitute a core mathematical process called geodesics with (Bohmian) quantal trajectories and patched the math to what we can observe of the universe and saw if the mathematical result along with Einstein's general relativity would be better able to predict other parts of the universe we currently are able to observe.
From what I can see, this theory, as far as predictability of reality, works just as well as the Big Bang Theory.
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Big Bang model diagram |
The reason the Big Bang Theory became more popular was that particles in the current universe tend to always follow geodesic patterns, so I believe it was just more natural to approach the question of "how did the Universe come to be?" using those same models.
The problem encountered is that the results of geodesics is that you always end up with singularities, points where mass always converges together. So its only natural that following this logic with the math, the very beginning of the Universe would naturally be a single singularity, a single point of matter where everything exists at once.
The problem of the Big Bang Theory and using geodesics to predict this, is that it cannot calculate what happens at the moment of the universe creation and, well, what was there prior.
Of course the Big Bang Theory was well in line with deist concepts of God creating things from a single snap of his fingers many years ago, but in a realistic sense, most scientists (and most people) have always been uncomfortable, rationally, with such a large amount of mass being in a single point and then exploding outwards to create ... everything....
Not to mention that using this math, we end up with all sorts of forces that must be accounted for with theoretical concepts like Dark Matter and Dark Energy, concepts put in as placeholders to fill in the gaps we can't figure out. And Big Bang Theorists are therefore always chasing after these Dark elements to give credence to the theory.
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Infinite Universe (how can we illustrate something that has no age and size? |
What occurs in the math is that we also don't end up with Dark Matter and Dark Energies, which is good since those buggers are really annoying. Instead, for things to work, the universe has to be filled with quantum fluid made up of really tiny particles. All macro matter, like atoms and bigger, are floating in this soup. And based on their math, things all come together nicely. And in this case, the universe has always been and always will be (no age).
Which is better? Time will tell. The issue is that we're dealing with lots of assumptions we can't test really in both cases. The interesting thing to me is that now there are two seemingly valid theories up in play that both carry annoying assumptions but give very different results.
Food for thought really.
This blog by Dr. Hugh Ross about this paper really does a good job at giving pros and cons of the new theories.
Its obvious that Dr. Hugh Ross is a God-fearing man, given his bio but its a good blog from another perspective so I like it.
As for myself, I'm an atheist and a Raƫlian so I'm partial philosophically to the Infinite Universe theory.
Science will continue poking at things and at some point in time we'll find a good model that will figure everything out.
My blog about Nassim Haramein is a good tangent to take on the explanation of the fabric of the universe (and the peer-reviewed paper that was published by the man not long ago. :)