A Rational Cosmology: A Refutation of Big Bang Theory

Essay VII

This is Essay VII of Mr. Stolyarov's series, "A Rational Cosmology," which seeks to present objective, absolute, rationally grounded views of terms such as universe, matter, volume, space, time, motion, sound, light, forces, fields, and even the higher-order concepts of life, consciousness, and volition. See the index of all the essays in "A Rational Cosmology" here.

A modern version of the "universe creation" fallacy is the Big Bang theory, largely inspired by the work of empiricist-positivist cosmologist Stephen Hawking. The Big Bang theory proposes that, some 15 billion years ago, the universe was created by the burst of a "singularity," this burst subsequently giving rise to the entirety of existent matter.

There are logical errors in the very notion of a "singularity." As we shall later explore, these errors involve a confusion between the Euclidean mathematical model of a point and the fact that no such points exist in reality, as well as series of common misuses of the term "infinity." But the Big Bang theory's flaws extend beyond this. The following questions suffice to disprove its most fundamental contentions.

If existence itself was created by the burst of this singularity, then, did or did not the singularity itself, whatever it was, exist, too? If we answer that it did exist, it could not have created the universe, or all of existence. If we answer that it did not exist, then it also could not have created anything, because to create, it is necessary to first have that which creates, i.e., some entity that exists.

Assuming that a singularity was a single entity, which exploded to result in the Big Bang, what caused the explosion? Explosion, like generic creation, is an action, and an action is a relationship of multiple entities that results in the alteration of said entities' qualities.