“In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.” IfsKnowsMindStatesBigsUniverseTheoryBattleModelsAppreciateVersionsMathematicalRememberedPrimeSteadyInflationBangsRivalsIdenticalCosmologyAstronomers Author:Fred Hoyle
“The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.” Has BeensIdeasBigsEffortTheoryComplexesContradictionBangsInvestigators Author:Fred Hoyle
“I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.” LittlesFactsShowsBigsResultsTheoryPatternsBangsHesitationHang Over Author:Fred Hoyle
“Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]” MatterBigsPastScienceUniverseParticularExpressionTheoryHypothesisBangsNomenclature Author:Fred Hoyle
“One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.” LifeIdeasBigsScienceUniverseViolenceSeriousHugeDifficultyExpansionFiniteBangsExplosionsExaminationRelicsNomenclature Book:The nature of the universe Source: The nature of the universe
“The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.” BigsUniverseCreationTheoryConceptsInvitesBangs Book:The Intelligent Universe Source: The Intelligent Universe
“On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms. . . . On philosophical grounds too I cannot see any good reason for preferring the big bang idea. Indeed it seems to me in the philosophical sense to be a distinctly unsatisfactory notion, since it puts the basic assumption out of sight where it can never be challenged by a direct appeal to observation.” TwoIdeasReasonBigsSeemsProcessTermDirectSightPhilosophicalNotionAstronomyObservationAppealsAssumptionIrrationalBangsCosmology Book:The nature of the universe Source: The nature of the universe
