Big Bang or Steady State? Wrong Question! (Variable Speed of Light Cosmology)

Variable speed of light offers an intriguing explanation of the cosmological redshift: no material expansion, just light spreads. As a consequence, the beginning of the universe is better understood as an horizon of one elementary particle (Big Flash). Contrarily to conventional cosmology, the value of the nuclear density becomes meaningful.

[samaipata]

I really enjoy that with help of YouTube different theories are being discussed and different views outlined. It is such creative exchange of genius minds leading to final success. It is also amazing what the new Webb telescope is revealing on daily basis, leaving us with trillions of riddles yet to solve!

[pedrosura]

If in average the Universe masses are at rest and gravity is attractive, isnt the Universe unstable. What keeps it from collapsing? Isnt this the reason for the Cosmological constant. This is a more elegant solution than what we have now..

[roygbiv]

I really appreciate this, I have come to the same conclusions about cosmology based on my study of Mach's principle, Sciama's 1953 model and Dirac's LNH, as well as Poincaré's geometrical conventionalism which led me to VSL theories.

[douglasstrother]

"Electromagnetic Fields and Waves" by Lorrain & Corson (2nd Edition) contains two problems relating Electrodynamics and Cosmology. Problem 4-22 starts with: "In 1959 Lyttelton and Bondi [Proc. Roy. Soc. (London) A, vol. 232, p.313] suggested that the expansion of the Universe could be explained on the basis of Newtonian Mechanics if matter contained a [tiny] net electric charge."

A follow-on problem, Problem 10-11, mentions that correction terms to curlB and divE due to the creation of this charge should be on the order of R^-2 where R in on the order of the radius of the Universe, so that the new terms would be negligible at all length scales but cosmological situations. This hypothesis is consistent with the linear velocity-distance observations. Thought-provoking problems from an Undergrad E&M text!

[davidbontems]

Though I am not a cosmologist, I ve always been puzzled by the number of issues in the standard model and the strange solutions to expain these (inflation, dark matter, dark energy), all sounds to me out of this world solutions as too complex - and still no trace of any of these!
I looked at almost all your videos (still a few to go), what a surprise to realize that maybe E.Mach was proposing a path to the solution more than 140 years ago. What a pity that Einstein, a great believer of static universe, did not investigate further the VSL option. How come more recent scientist Sciama and many others where not listened to by a larger community?
I hope that you will succeed in bringing more attention from many scientist and cosmologists to this approach as we cannot continue to spent millions of dollars to look for dark matter and other phantom of current models.
Thank you again for your videos, sometime fast or difficult to follow for less experimented people.

[BurevestnikM]

Aristotle’s account of motion and its place in nature can be found in the Physics. By motion, Aristotle understands any kind of change. He defines motion as the "actuality of a potentiality" (Sartre: "Does a possibility, through its actualization, become more real than it was?" = existentialism). In order to adequately understand Aristotle’s definition of motion it is necessary to understand what he means by actuality and potentiality. Aristotle uses the words energeia and entelechia interchangeably to describe a kind of action. A linguistic analysis shows that, by actuality, Aristotle means both energeia, which means being-at-work, and entelechia, which means being-at-an-end. These two words, although they have different meanings, function as synonyms in Aristotle’s scheme. For Aristotle, to be a thing in the world is to be at work, to belong to a particular species, to act for an end and to form material into enduring organized wholes.
From the Middle Ages to modern times, commentators disagreed on the interpretation of Aristotle’s account of motion. An accurate rendering of Aristotle’s definition must include apparently inconsistent propositions:
(a) that motion is rest, and
(b) that a potentiality, which must be, if anything, a privation of actuality, is at the same time that actuality of which it is the lack.
St. Thomas observes that to say that something is in motion is just to say that it is both what it is already and something else that it is not yet. Accordingly, motion is the mode in which the future belongs to the present, it is the present absence of just those particular absent things which are about to be. St. Thomas thus resolves the apparent contradiction between potentiality and actuality in Aristotle’s definition of motion by arguing that in every motion actuality and potentiality are mixed or blended.
St. Thomas’ interpretation of Aristotle’s definition of motion, however, is not free of difficulties. His interpretation seems to trivialize the meaning of entelechia. One implication of this interpretation is that whatever happens to be the case right now is an entelechia, as though something which is intrinsically unstable as the instantaneous position of an arrow in flight deserved to be described by the word which Aristotle everywhere else reserves for complex organized states which persist, which hold out in being against internal and external causes tending to destroy them.
In the Metaphysics, however, Aristotle draws a distinction between two kinds of potentiality. On the one hand, there are latent or inactive potentialities. On the other hand, there are active or at-work potentialities. Accordingly, every motion is a complex whole, an enduring unity which organizes distinct parts. Things have being to the extent that they are or are part of determinate wholes, so that to be means to be something, and change has being because it always is or is part of some determinate potentiality, at work and manifest in the world as change.
The word entelecheia was invented by Aristotle, but never defined by him. It is at the heart not only of his definition of motion, but of all his thought. Its meaning is the most knowable in itself of all possible objects of the intellect. There is no starting point from which we can descend to put together the cements of its meaning. We can come to an understanding of entelecheia only by an ascent from what is intrinsically less knowable than it, indeed knowable only through it, but more known because more familiar to us. We have a number of resources by which to begin such an ascent, drawing upon the linguistic elements out of which Aristotle constructed the word, and upon the fact that he uses the word energeia as a synonym, or all but a synonym, for entelecheia.

[thomasstorgaard]

Als ein Laie in Physik finde ich trotzdem der Video hervorragend. Herzlichen dank um George Gamow und Georges Lemaitre kritisch zu thematisieren.

[thomasstorgaard]

As an absolute layman in physics (although I was quite good at it in school), I have a question for you at behalf of an astrophysicist and adherent of the Big Bang model in my family, how do you explain the occurence of lesser Helium, Deuterium and Tritium in alleged older stars? "Big Bangers" will say that the volumes of the three are diminished in nuclear processes in the Big Bang. My own very lay conclusions, from what you have said in your VSL videos, are that the three elements exists in various/relative quantities in the universe, Einstein again, and not because of destruction in a massive nuclear explosion at the beginning of time, and what appears to be older stars is a misinterpretation due the a wrong interpretation of the Hubble Red Shift. Have I passed the exam?😀

[kpunkt.klaviermusik]

Wondering if the idea of a static (non expanding) universe is still thinkable if the redshift is caused just by light slowing down.

[arthurrobey]

Dr. Sheldrake found that the speed of light varies year by year by order of magnitude greater than the error bars. Does this imply that the amount of matter is also varying in the Cosmos?
This seems highly unlikely.
I prefer the idea that Albert conflated mathematical dimensions with physical ones.

[surendranmk]

It is sure that we have to rethink about the basic principles of both in cosmology and elementary particle physics..As a physicist, at first, one have to clearly understand what is electric charge and what is gravitation.

[davidwilkie]

Variable Speed of Light implies that e-Pi-i log-log quantization is like the apparent effect of gravity as a displacement acceleration, ie positioning Relativity in Bose-Einsteinian Condensation ratio-rates, Quantum-fields projection-drawing here-now-forever.
Similar in concept to a Movie Theatre image, except every point of the image is line-of-sight superposition density-intensity, flash fractal re-cognition time-timing memory interference.

Thanks for the introduction to the ideas with considerate caution.

[Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Sir a candle flame on the International Space Station in zero gravity will naturally form a sphere that is interacting with the environment relative to its two dimensional surface. Could this geometry form a geometrical reason for the two dimensional large structures of the Universe? Also could this form a geometrical reason for the similarities in your maths, large numbers?

[drkerynjohnson]

Inflation is due to alpha particle emission from Helium Bose Einstein condensate. The original singularity distance between electrons was 0.00004 nm or 4E-14 m and this equates to 2990637811 KJ/mol as a velocity m/s and 9.97 times faster than the speed of light and the sqrt of 9.97 is equivalent to pi^2

This relationship is due to the formation of positron and electron in pairs to maintain the zero point state.

[VDananic]

I admire your approach to physics. It is really refreshing. In addition to the question you've posed, I think the question why the electric is quantized (at least it appears to be quantized) and mass is not (at least it appears not to be quantized) is also important. Dirac's explanation of the charge quantization does not involve gravity (or does it?). For some time I am struggling with the idea that the vector potential in electrodynamics is somehow related to gravity

[AndrewWutke]

What is the significance of time=1?
Is it one second? What so special about 1 second = 1/86400 part of Earth' period before the Earth has formed?
What clock rate was then comparing to now on Earth?
How do you track clocks rate everywhere under variable gravity over 13 billion years?
How you define global time everywhere with changing rates.?
How clocks are synchronise?
How to define speed of light without clock synchronisation?
These are not questions to Alexander but to whole cosmology model.
I enjoy the critical approach to problems in physics on this site irrespective of doubts. The critique is very constructive in science. Good work.

[PrivateSi]

I have just discovered Paul Steinhardt's 'Shrinkage + Expansion' model... His shrinkage removes Inflation while flattening space without clashing with (or warping) QM and Relativity.

[Phbbe]

Godspeed this is why I started watching your videos

[zx]

Dr Unzicker,

1. Correct me if I am wrong, but in this VSL model, the speed of light is observably constant in the present day, but varies only due to light being emitted in the distant past? If so, then how does light refract in the presence of masses? Doesn't light need to have a delta velocity to be bent around objects in VSL? Or are you proposing a hybrid VSL/curved spacetime model?

2. I think you have mostly valid points regarding where is the dark matter, but I am reserved since it could be we just don't have a way to interact with the proposed dark matter experimentally.

[yosef]

Was the expansion spontaneous or was there a trigger? Prior to the expansion was space a perfect vacuum?