Comments on: JOÃO MAGUEIJO’S BIG BANG

By: John Askins

John Askins — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:22:52 +0000

I have only just watched Joao’s program on the big bang and his VSL theory and although I’m only a layman, I believe it can be proved much more easily than people think. Randall Rhodes talks about objects with mass attaining infinite mass if accelerated to velocities approaching the speed of light. This argment is used by the mad prophets of doom who insist the LHC will generate a black hole that will eventually swallow the universe but the very existence of muons contradict this argument. Muons have mass and travel through space at speeds very close to that of light and yet they have a mass that is infinitessimally small.

I came up with an idea several years ago that I call “Yapman’s Paradox” which states – “If the speed of light is constant the the flow of time must also be constant, but if the flow of time is constant, then the speed of light is not neccessarily constant”. This idea evolved from considering the predicted effect of time dilation and I think is easily checked out.

If we take a line from the theoretical origin of the big bang, extend it through the milky way and beyond, by comparing the state of galaxies on this line, some closer to the origin and also some approximately equidistant, but further away, time dilation predicts that the galaxies further away should be significantly younger in their stage of development than those closer to the origin. If that proves not to be the case, then Einstein’s got it wrong and E=mc² needs re-evaluating.

I realise that many people are going to consider me as a crank but I can offer good, reasoned arguments that show the idea of time dilation to be nothing more than an illusion. I believe Joao’s bang on the button with VSL.

By: michaelbiggs

michaelbiggs — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:52:25 +0000

There is no way to explain the Horizon Problem much less his theory on a short TV program. He is interesting to watch and a true top cosmologist, but if you want to understand the issues completely it will take years of study.

Also there is not time on a TV program to point out all the contributions others have made.

The map of the back ground big bang radiation that he shows on the program came from a NASA satelite. The chief investigator on that program won a Noble prize for his work. That was a first for a NASA scientist.

He also does not even mention dark matter or Nonsymmetric Gravitational Theory or John Moffat’s latest work on a Theory of Modified Gravity.

Anyway, if the program gets a few people interested I guess it did it job.

By: Dumitrescu Adrian

Dumitrescu Adrian — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:20:35 +0000

Big Bang is a fake for me.Red shifting is a electromagnetic property for long distance solid angle.We have a very small light signal who theoretically had disappear but still see.Photons
lost frequency & energy towards red shifting.
Vacuum generate chaotic electromagnetic in 0 Kelvin ,
or (else we have a 0 Kelvin universal hard block ,I imagine).

By: Reaz

Reaz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:26:46 +0000

His comparison, when discussing the Horizon issue, didn’t make much sense to me. He was comparing himself and Felix from his childhood and mentioned that based on existing theory, he and Felix should be identical. But isn’t he comparing apples to oranges? As far as we can tell, space isn’t making decisions every second that can alter their future; whereas, Felix can and did, which made his a butcher. What am I missing?

By: Healthy Shana

Healthy Shana — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:10:10 +0000

Juelz, that were you going to say? I don’t see your posting.

By: Healthy Shana

Healthy Shana — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:09:19 +0000

Wow Todd I’m gonna have to check that out. I don’t have TiVo so I might have to watch it a couple times.

By: juelz santana

juelz santana — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:18:08 +0000

Ah, my verb agreement is off and I can’t edit the post…lovely. oh well, you get the point.

By: juelz santana

juelz santana — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:14:22 +0000

I would like to start by asserting that I know nothing about cosmology, or any of the scientific “laws” that it adheres to; nor do I have any scientific “knowledge” about the universe at all, besides what I have learned from a few TV shows here and there, and from what I have conjured up in my imagination, which ultimately has proven to be the main catalyst for the propagation of science and inquiry in the first place, so I figure why negate a few ‘crazy,’ scientifically unsupported thoughts that have just recently popped up in my head regarding (VSL). Therefore, in a very impromptu manner, how about this: at the moment the big bang occurred, when energy began turning into mass, the universe was in a unique state—a true vacuum state—that enabled light to travel at speeds faster than any recorded measurements of light traveling in a “vacuum” on earth; for the reason that matter in the early universe hadn’t formed into large objects with a defined mass and gravity, which would have exerted a force upon the light, causing it to slow down. Furthermore, perhaps the early universe lacked an abundance of black holes and other profoundly dense objects with massive amounts of gravity that cause light to slow and bend. So…as the universe cooled, and matter formed into denser objects with different gravitational levels, the universe, in a sense, possesses more obstacles, or forces, or dark matter, or whatever, that oppress the speed of light. Thus, when we measure the speed of light in a vacuum on earth, the calculations are not pure—like the time right after the big bang—but diluted by forces from matter and particles that were not present immediately after the big bang, which have developed over the billions of years of cooling and have caused light to slow. Perhaps think of it like traffic: early in the morning you (light) can drive your car fast because there is a lack of other cars (formed, dense matter with gravity) on the road, but as time goes on, and more cars drive onto the road, you have to slow down due to the existence (the forces acting against you) of the other cars on the same road. Ergo, while at one time you moved fast; now, the forces of traffic act upon you, causing you to slow down.

By: todd

todd — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:10:54 +0000

i guess i should look into it before i post. I guess Joao uses the tern to describe hot and cold spots in the CMB that do not fit with the normal pattern. And maybe the 666 part is just some wierd editing between frames

By: todd

todd — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:55:06 +0000

In One of his episodes while he is talking about the Horizon Problem there is a creepy subliminal message, that i barely caught with my eye, but can confirm with Tivo. A few seconds after he uses the metaphor of seeing 3 different people with orange paint on them far away from each other in a city.
Right where the title “Horizon Problem” is a line forms, then the next frame it gets stretched into the Words “AXIS OF EVIL” – The following frame changes the words to “666 of Evil” (look closely), then the following 3-4 frames are again “Axis of Evil” but in different fonts.
Pretty creepy if you ask me, on what you would think would be a politically nuetral program.