The Big Bang Never Happened? Eric Lerner, DemystifySci #337

Eric Lerner is a popular science writer, plasma physicist, and
long-time collaborator of the late Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén.
He’s also one of the featured speakers at our Beyond the Big Bang
event this summer in Sesimbra, Portugal. For over thirty years,
Lerner has been a leading voice in plasma cosmology and a critic
of Big Bang cosmology, who argued for a non-expanding, steady
state universe as the central claim of his landmark book The Big
Bang Never Happened (affiliate link to puchase:
https://amzn.to/4jEez8H). Our conversation dives into the history
and foundations of plasma cosmology, from early Birkeland current
experiments in the Arctic that revealed the electrical nature of
the aurora, to the role of plasma dynamics in the shape and
behavior of galaxies. All the hits are in here - from Halton Arp,
whose Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies seriously challenged the way
that mainstream cosmologists interpret redshift, to the
electromagnetic forces often overlooked in mainstream cosmology,
to the filamentary plasma structures and cosmic-scale currents
that strain the limits of the standard model. This is a deep
exploration of alternative cosmology, electric universe theories,
and the scientists behind them — from Fred Hoyle to Anthony
Peratt — who refused to patch a dying theory and instead asked
instead if the universe might be eternal.


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00:00 Go!00:05:59 – The Cosmological Pendulum 00:14:09 –
Knowledge and Societal Progress 00:22:18 – Big Bang Origins &
Ideological Influence 00:29:04 – Technological Stagnation Since
the 1970s 00:32:02 – Ideology Replacing Empiricism in Science
00:36:14 – Gravity vs. Electromagnetism in Cosmology 00:41:02 –
Evolution of Scientific Funding Models 00:51:11 – Birkeland
Currents & Plasma Discoveries 00:56:25 – Centralization of
Postwar Science 01:00:18 – Orthodoxy in Medicine 01:00:59 –
Decline of Fundamental Research 01:04:39 – Plasma Cosmology vs.
Dark Matter 01:08:52 – Capitalism and Research Priorities
01:14:22 – Sustaining Independent Science 01:15:16 – Birkeland,
Alfvén & Plasma History 01:22:24 – Einstein’s Rise &
Cultural Legacy 01:31:05 – General Relativity and Elitism
01:34:44 – Chapman’s Math vs. Empirics 01:37:12 – Alfvén’s Plasma
Breakthroughs 01:43:39 – Plasma Physics vs. Big Bang Theories
01:47:39 – Nobel Prize & MHD’s Hidden Flaws 01:58:00 –
Filamentary Plasmas vs. MHD 02:00:47 – Pseudoplasmas and MHD
Limits 02:02:58 – Defining Plasma as a State of Matter 02:06:00 –
Where Plasma Exists in Nature 02:11:17 – The Myth of Mathematical
Models 02:21:10 – Scientific vs. Aesthetic Cosmology 02:29:55 –
Failed Big Bang Predictions 02:36:01 – Alternatives to the
Expanding Universe 02:43:09 – Large-Scale Structures and Cosmic
Age 02:50:10 – Public Science and Open Debate 02:55:16 – Toward a
New Cosmological Paradigm


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