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For many decades consensus scientific theory
has held that the universe began many billions of years ago
in a primordial creation event that defies all the laws and principles of physics.
On this series
we have reported on many increasingly fatal discoveries for the Big Bang Theory.
From impossibly huge objects that exceed the theoretical size limit
of any object at this time in the Big Bang universe
to so-called impossible stars
whose chemical composition is completely wrong
if they formed from material in the early universe
to grand design galaxies that display a complexity of form
that defies their theoretical age.
Today, astrophysicists are again resorting to new conjectures
to try to preserve the Big Bang story.
The latest irreconcilable data comes from scientists' attempt
to analyze the so-called 'Cosmic Dawn'
a period about 200 million years after the hypothetical Big Bang
when the earliest stars are thought to have started to shine.
The scientists have used a radio antenna
called the 'Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of reionization Signature' or EDGES.
Their goal was to study the absorption of radiation by hydrogen
flowing between the so-called earliest generation of stars.
What they report to have found
is that the hydrogen gas appears to be much cooler than expected,
too cold in fact for the Big Bang Theory to possibly explain.
Today, science headlines are reporting an ad hoc theory invented by two astrophysicists
which is intended to save both the big bang theory
and the hypothetical existence of dark matter.
In a new paper in the journal Nature
the astrophysicists proposed that a tiny fraction of dark matter has an electric charge
which they suggest could be responsible for the hydrogen's anomalously cold temperature.
Astrophysicist Steven Furlanetto told the website Live Science.com,
"If EDGES is correct, I don't think there's any conventional explanation that's compelling.
You really need to go to one of these non-standard physics scenarios,
in that case, I think it's wide open."
But this latest attempt to redeem both the discredited Big Bang Theory
and the futile search for Dark Matter
cannot be described as a "wide open effort" to explore new possibilities.
The EDGES endeavor is based on the premise that the Big Bang actually happened.
This latest finding of anomalously cool hydrogen
is only the latest in an endless string of fatal discoveries for the Big Bang hypothesis.
If astrophysicists are actually interested in "non-standard" physics scenarios,
the most promising foundations were laid decades ago
by the late astronomer Halton Arp.
Arp's exhaustive research into the anomalous redshifts of quasars
revealed that the universe is currently of unknown age and extent.
Arp's thesis was supported by noted astronomers such as Fred Hoyle
and Jeffrey and Margaret Burbidge among several others.
The only attempt to discredit Arp's discoveries was based on statistics
and did not use his highly specific and successful predictive methodology.
The abstract in the Nature paper states,
"The dynamics of our universe is strongly influenced by pervasive
― albeit elusive ― dark matter,
with the total mass about five times the mass of all the baryons."
But this statement is purely speculative and has no factual basis at all.
No experiment has ever detected dark matter
and as we have documented for over six years on this series,
the quest to prove the existence of various types of dark matter has only proved futile.
Of course, it's deeply ironic that scientists are now invoking
electrically charged dark matter to try to save the Big Bang story.
The fact is that earthly gravitational theory does not work on the galactic scale.
In the early 20th century some astronomers proposed dark matter as a possible solution
to the anomalous stellar rotation profiles in galaxies.
The mystery was,
why do Newtonian dynamics fail to explain the impossibly
high velocities of rotation of the outer stars in galaxies?
Later scientists using galaxy rotation curves
also proposed the need for many times more Dark Matter than visible mass.
But scientists today increasingly acknowledge
that the many different types of hypothesized dark matter
even including electrically charged dark matter
have run out of places to hide.
However, for decades plasma cosmologists have explained galactic rotation
and detailed features of spiral galaxies in electromagnetic terms,
a breakthrough that astrophysicists continue to ignore.
In fact, as we reported in recent months,
retired professor of electrical engineering Dr. Donald Scott
has published a paper in which he compares the predicted stellar velocities
based on his model that the galaxies are fed by electrical Birkeland currents
and the actual stellar velocity profiles measured over many decades.
As seen in this graph, the two compare remarkably well.
The velocity in these stars really, in the real world,
and they've been measured like this for 85 years now,
they vary as the square root of r.
The last picture is a comparison of the predicted and actual stellar velocity.
So, if you take my model of the Birkeland current
and assume that its feeding the rotation in the Birkeland current
is responsible for the rotation of the galaxy,
that is the comparison between the actual velocity
which is that sort of wiggly, sort of a very lazy s-curve
and the square root of r is the smoother curve there
and that's exactly what my Birkeland current model predicts should happen.
So there's no surprises
and these guys have been chasing their tails down a box canyon for 85 years now
looking and crying out that they know that Dark Matter exists
but they can't find it!
That's because there's no reason for it.