The most spectacular failure of Big Bang Dark Cosmology is illustrated in Freedman and Turner's review of the theory. In a picture --- their figure 6, the dark cake ---, a slice diagram depicts the percentage distribution of the mass-energy content of the universe in its various forms. As a matter of fact, the authors show that the theory is unable to feed anyone from the substance present in the cake. Because most of it is inexistent.

1. Introduction

The Big Bang Dark Cosmology is a "castle built on sand" but in a different and strange way. The castle is sort of upside down.

One begins with reasonable scientific assumptions but ends with completely erroneous results for the most important: the mass-energy content of the universe.

The result is that about only 0.5% of the mass-energy content of the universe, predicted by the theory, is actually matched by observations!

The whole theory is then unsatisfactory and all of its assumptions are subjected to questioning --- including General Relativity, by the way.

2. The Dark Cake

Figure 6 of Freedman and Turner (2003) is presented below. I call it the dark cake. It is made of apparently eatable slices but I show next that it is not the case for most of the slices.

The only eatable slices of the cake are the baryon slice, the neutrino slice and the CMB slice. But --- look out! --- the baryon slice is not all eatable. It has a dark, i.e., uneatable portion in it: 3.5%!!! It is called baryonic dark matter.

The remaining slices are most likely uneatable, as well; some say, almost surely nonexistent.

Thus, summing everything up, one does not get more than 0.5%... That is to say, only a tiny part of the dark cake is really composed of eatable substance. Of existent substance, let us be clear about it.

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