Big Bang or Little Poof?

Robert J. Siegel and Edward Siegel
7/27/22
 
The first pictures from the Webb space telescope are awe inspiring. The photos from Hubble space telescope were astonishing but we now see that the photos from Webb are far more detailed, clearer and spectacular. One of the goals of the Webb is to look back in time to just after the so called Big Bang. We maintain that what Webb will find is that time extends back to well before the Big Bang. In fact, the first photos already provide us evidence. Before you dismiss us as cranks please read on.
The photo above is the first one released by the Webb scientists. To capture this image the telescope was aimed at what had previously been “an empty region of space”. The mission scientists tell us that the oldest of the galaxies we are seeing are sending us their light from some 13 billion years ago. I have no doubt they are correct. How did we get here before their light did? Are we traveling faster than the speed of light? Moreover, what if they now choose another region of space to aim the Webb, one that is 180 degrees opposite from the one they first chose. Would they also get images of galaxies 13 billion light years away? We believe they would. That would mean that the two opposite regions of space are 26 billion light years apart! How did they get that far apart when the universe itself, according to the Big Bang, is only 13.6 billion years old?
Another question arises if we are able to see 13 plus billion years in any direction back to just after the Big Bang does that put us in the middle of the universe. In other words, do we now have a Sol-Centric universe? Doesn’t seem Ptolemeic? And if we can see 13 billion years in any direction does that mean that at there is a 13 billion year old perimeter to the universe or is that just because that’s the limit of our instrumentation?
Some believers in the Big Bang will tell us that these distances were spanned during that magical period they call Inflation when all of the laws of physics were suspended for an infinitesimally short period of time. In other words, all the matter in the universe traveled at beyond the speed of light, a speed which Einstein has told us is inviolate, and then came to a screeching halt only to start speeding up again in our currently expanding universe. Let’s not forget that all this primordial stuff magically popped out of a singularity no larger than the period at the end of this sentence. Really?
If you take a look at the Big Bang, it bears a distinct similarity to the biblical account of creation. It’s no wonder. The original promulgator of the theory was one Georges Lemaitre, a prominent and extremely accomplished astrophysicist. He was also a Belgian Catholic priest. That someone with his acumen and religious beliefs could come up with a theory that was consistent with both the bible and much of the known physical evidence would have made Galileo envious.
Of course, the Big Bang is not consistent with all of the physical evidence. That’s why they had to come up with the magic of inflation. Violating the cosmic speed limit is the big one.  I am also tempted to make snarky comments about the singularity but we’ll just ask a few questions.
Why only one singularity?
Why did it explode?
How was it created in the first place?
The Big Bang Theory is a wonderful invention of a powerful mind, supplemented by the efforts of many other great minds, but we think it is time for our learned friends to give up the orthodoxy, admit the emperor has no clothes and look for a more parsimonious explanation for our universe.