Frankensteining Cosmogony and the Giant Arc
Secular cosmogonists have this thing called the cosmological principle that, simply put, matter should be evenly distributed and everything looks the same from every direction in the universe. It should all be nice and smooth due to the Big Bang. That is, if someone could look at it from the point of view of the Creator that they deny. It is not going well.
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How many times have we been told that “new physics” are needed to explain the universe?
Another record-breaking structure adds to the “lumpiness problem” in cosmology – the conundrum that our universe is not the smooth, homogeneous display one might expect from a big bang. Bas den Hond writes Tontologically in New Scientist: “Line of galaxies is so big it breaks our understanding of the universe.” Was your understanding broken, or just theirs?
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