#BigBangCosmology #SteadyState #TheoriesOfEverything Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For all those who wonder about this bizarre universe, and those who want to overthrow the Big Bang, this handbook gives you 'just the facts': the observations that have shaped these ideas and theories. While the Big Bang holds the attention of scientists, it isn't perfect. The authors pull back the curtains, and show how cosmology really works. With this, you will know your enemy, cosmic revolutionary - arm yourself for the scientific arena where ideas must fight for survival! This uniquely-framed tour of modern cosmology gives a deeper understanding of the inner workings of this fascinating field. The portrait painted is realistic and raw, not idealized and airbrushed - it is science in all its messy detail, which doesn't pretend to have all the answers. Get The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook ((Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)) https://amzn.to/3oaXxCi Checklist for constructing your own big bang alternative: 1. Know your enemy: Learn the mathematical model that undergirds the big bang theory. 2. Prepare your rival: Your theory of the universe needs to be precisely formulated, ready for anyone to use to predict data. 3. Olbers's paradox: Explain why the sky is dark at night. 4. Redshift and distance: Explain why the light we receive from galaxies is almost always redshifted, and why redshift increases proportionally to distance. 5. Fading light: Explain why supernovae fade more slowly, and why galaxies are dimmer, when their light is more redshifted. 6. Cosmic microwave background: Explain why the CMB has a near perfect blackbody spectrum at 2.725 K, and why the temperature of that spectrum increases with redshift. 7. Forest: Explain where the Lyman alpha forest comes from, why it is thicker at higher redshift, and why it is correlated with the positions of galaxies. 8. Cosmic oven: Explain why the universe (especially the parts untouched by stars) is 75% hydrogen, about 24% helium, and about one nucleus in 40,000 deuterium. Protip: Use this code https://alterbbn.hepforge.org/ 9. Do better: Explain or eliminate dark energy and dark matter, decipher satellite galaxies, solve the lithium problem, analyse the absence of antimatter, and unveil the beginning (or not) of the universe. 10. Publish: Present your theory - principles, equations, and predictions - concisely and clearly to the light of expert scrutiny. Engage scientists through the right channels, be patient, and strike a blow for the revolution! (Just be sure to give Luke and Geraint at least some of the credit.) Extra credit: leave a comment with the analogous checklist, but for Theo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wg1mRPRg0c

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