The
Big Bang Never Happened Is The New Standard?
While there is scientific consensus that the
Big Bang is the best explanation for the
origin of the Universe, there's a growing
chorus of doubters among the world
astrophysics community, led by the fascinating
new work of Wun-Yi Shu at the National Tsing
Hua University in Taiwan who has developed an
innovative new description of the Universe in
which the roles of time space and mass are
related in new kind of relativity. Shu's idea
is that time and space are not independent
entities but can be converted back and forth
between each other. In his formulation of the
geometry of spacetime, the speed of light is
simply the conversion factor between the two.
Similarly, mass and length are interchangeable
in a relationship in which the conversion
factor depends on both the gravitational
constant G and the speed of light, neither of
which need be constant. In other words, as
the Universe expands, mass and time are
converted to length and space and vice versa
as it contracts.