Is "Age of the Universe" the Wrong Question? Dr. Martín López Corredoira, IAC Astrophysics, #312

Martin Lopez Corredoira is a physicist, philosopher, author, and
playwright who has written extensively on the issues with
standard cosmological theories, the role of science in society,
and a number of short biographies of key figures in the history
of science. He is both a theoretical and observational
cosmologist, and we sit down with him for a conversation about
what it would take for a theory like the Big Bang to finally come
undone. In the course of our talk, we narrow down the list of
substantive criticisms of the standard model, lay out the reasons
to be optimistic, and find that there’s actually a decent
community of dissenting scholars that are doing everything they
can to lay the groundwork for the revolution that’s coming down
the pipes in the wake of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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(00:00) Go! (00:04:31) Big Bang Theory and Its Cultural Resonance
(00:07:28) Key Discoveries in Support of the Standard Model
(00:13:48) Challenges in Falsifying Cosmological Theories
(00:20:55) Core Assumptions in Cosmological Theories (00:29:11)
Institutional Pragmatism (00:36:12) Funding and Scientific
Orthodoxy (00:47:27) Community for Alternative Thinkers
(01:00:07) Advancements in Astronomy Technologies (01:09:55)
Determining the Age of the Universe (01:14:46) Standard Candles
and Measurement Challenges (01:25:58) Observational limitations
(01:46:07) Innovations and Constraints (01:52:17) Rethinking
Information Access (02:08:30) The Future of Science and
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