An Eternal and Uncreated Universe or the Big Bang?
The Big Bang theory is now considered the only one able to explain the observational data we have, including the existence of the cosmic background radiation, the mutual recession of the galaxies, and the abundance of hydrogen, helium, and lithium in the Universe. But first, it had to overcome competition from another cosmological model, the steady-state theory
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8 min readJan 8, 2020
The observations of the deep sky over the past century have taught us that the observable Universe extends over billions of light-years and is made up of countless billions of galaxies, distributed more or less evenly throughout the sky. We also discovered that the Universe is continually expanding and becoming colder on average.
But what is its origin? Where do all the matter and radiation that pervade it come from? In short, how did the Universe come about? Science’s answers to this formidable question have not always been in agreement. There was a time, for example, around the middle of the last century, when scientists were divided into two opposing fields: the steady-state advocates, led by Fred Hoyle, and the Big Bang advocates, led…
