Ten Words against Big Bang Dark Cosmology*
Domingos Soares
Departamento de Física, ICEx, UFMG
-- C.P. 702
30161-970, Belo Horizonte -- Brazil
E-mail: dsoares@fisica.ufmg.br
June 21, 2004
Abstract
I proclaim ten words --- statements --- against the dominant contemporary
cosmological model. Seven of them are scientific statements (1 to 7), the
others being of a personal character with an ironic mood.
Scientific Words
1. It does not predict the correct mass-energy content of the
universe. Too much dark --- i.e., up to now, unobservable --- components.
2. Neutrinos are --- technically --- WIMPs with very small rest
masses, of the order of ~ 1 eV/c2, or less. They were firstly
detected some decades ago. Much more massive WIMPs, required to fill in the
non-baryonic dark matter budget, remain so far undetected, which is obviously
surprising.
3. A dozen free-parameter fitting to Cosmic Microwave Background
fluctuations, unconstrained by actual observations. Constraints usually
arise on a theory-within-theory basis, i.e., on self-circular constraining.
4. Overvaluing of pseudo-scientific environments, being one of
the most appreciated, the Anthropic Cosmological Principle.
5. The so-called "cosmological constant problem". In some of the
appropriate scenarios for the acceleration field, in Big Bang Dark Cosmology,
namely, that of Einstein's cosmological constant (lambda), where
quantum field theory has something to say, there is a discrepancy of tens of
orders of magnitudes, about a dozen of them (10120!!!). In other
words, the lambda value implied by quantum field theory makes our universe
10-10 second old and 3 cm large, within the Big Bang Dark Cosmology
framework.
6. Science-making does not follow strict "scientific method" and
its requirements concerning confrontation with observations and/or experiments.
7. Rejection of Newton's "Hypotheses non fingo":
"I feign no hypotheses". Meaning, the least, the better.
Personal Words
8. Darker and darker. The more it improves, the more it
darkens. There are no limits in darkness. Dark is beautiful. The Dark Ages.
Still dark after all these years. The dark side of the mind. The dark side
of the universe. "It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see. I feel like
I'm knockin' on heaven's door". And so forth.
10. Shall we try something else? (Hey! No bad feelings! There is
room for everyone... Still.)
* For more short comments on
modern cosmology check at the following address: www.fisica.ufmg.br/~dsoares/notices-e.htm).
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Domingos Sávio de Lima Soares
June 21 2004