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Standard Cosmology

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There is a perception that standard cosmology is firmly based on the general theory of relativity, which is said to supersede the dictates of special relativity. However, this is a fabrication that only serves to corroborate the big-bang fantasy. Ironically, many opponents of the big-bang model fail to recognize this fundamental fallacy at the root of the expanding-universe avowal.

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Notes

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    Note that R 0≠0 as in later versions of standard cosmology.

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    Discussion of the current ΛCDM version continues in section 6.7.9.

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    In the Forward to this book, J.A. Wheeler states that ′… the authors provide one of the best short reviews of cosmology ever published.′

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    For a detailed discussion see: Coughlan & Dodd (1991).

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    This, by the way, coincides exactly with the epoch of baryogenesis during which the assumed annihilation of all antimatter occured. One gets the suspicion that there are too many balls to keep in the air.

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    E.A. Poe (1848).

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Boeyens, J.C.A. (2010). Standard Cosmology. In: Chemical Cosmology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3828-9_6

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