The paradoxes that threaten to tear modern cosmology apart. The visible matter of the universe of which we can actually observe is only a 0.5% piece of the predicted matter content of the universe. The observed value of the cosmological constant is about 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what the theory predicts from the energy density of the physical vacuum. There are discrepancies between observed and predicted galaxy density profiles. The number of number of observed satellite galaxies is too small compared to what theory predicts. A tight correlation between dark matter and baryons in galaxies has been observed which is not predicted by any theory. Observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Two-degree-Field Galaxy Redshift Survey do not fit the theory of large scale galaxy formation. Observations of baryon acoustic oscillations in structures in the local Universe dont agree with what theory predicts. In the very deep galaxy surveys, quasi-stellar objects structures with sizes of about 500 megaparcecs (i.e. huge) exist, but are not predicted by any theory. In the cosmic microwave background radiation, there are problems with quadrupole and octopole observations disagreeing with what is predicted by theory, but I have no idea what CMBR quadrupole and octopole observations are about, so cant say anything about that. Anyway, theory fails to match observation of the universe at the largest scales. The linear Hubble law implies homogeneity, but modern observations show the universe is fractal at large scales and inhomogeneous. In General Relativity there are no concepts of energy-momentum density or energy quanta of the gravitational field, though field energy exists for all other fundamental physical interactions. The concept of space expansion requires continuous creation of vacuum, which violates the principle of conservation of energy. Physical objects like particles, atoms, stars and galaxies do not expand, so inside these objects there is no space creation, so the creation of space must be a cosmological phenomenon which has not been tested yet in any physical laboratory. The cosmological redshift in expanding space is not the Doppler effect, but it is a new physical phenomenon which has never been tested in any lab.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:30:15 +0000
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