About Lerner’s argument against the Big Bang:
a. Lerner calculated that the Big Bang universe has not had
enough time to form superclusters. Wright calculates that all
the voids could be vacated and superclusters formed in less
than 11-14 billion years (barely). But that assumes that almost
all matter has initial speeds headed directly out of voids and
toward matter concentrations. Lerner, on the other hand,
assumed that the speeds had to be built up by gravitational
attraction, which takes many times longer. Lerner’s point is
more reasonable because doing it Wright’s way requires finetuning
of initial conditions.
b. Wright argues that “there is certainly lots of evidence for dark
matter.” The reality is that there is no credible observational
detection of dark matter, so all the “evidence” is a matter of
interpretation, depending on theoretical assumptions. For
example, Milgrom’s Model explains all the same evidence
without any need for dark matter.
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