![]() ![]() ( 2 Corinthians 10:4, 5 KJV) (emphasis added) This makes the paradigm particularly difficult to refute, because new physics (in the untestable cosmos) can always be added to resolve any conflicts.įor the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds ) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. The motivation is largely from cosmology and the worldview that the big bang is the correct cosmogony 2 for the universe we see.īesides the dark sector, including dark matter, dark energy, and now dark radiation, is proposed as an auxiliary hypothesis to rescue the standard big bang model from the inconsistencies in the observations (CMB, type Ia supernova data etc). 1 The Standard Model of particle physics alone, as contrasted with its application to cosmology, particularly big bang nucleosynthesis, does not really need them. Therefore components from the dark sector (as it is called in particle physics) are essentially only needed when cosmology is involved. ![]() But we need to understand that dark matter, dark energy, and other “unknowns” (Hartnett 2008, 2013a) were only proposed in the standard big bang cosmology to resolve some conflicts between the standard paradigm and astrophysical observations. We should first understand that proposing the existence of some as-yet-unidentified particle is not bad physics per se. When astrophysicists measure the total amount of matter in the universe using different methods, and different data sets, it has been found that they get quite different answers.īut before we proceed to look at this problem in detail we need to give this discussion some context. Is something dark going on in cosmology? If you thought dark energy and dark matter were hard to understand (and justify), now a new component has been added to the dark side- dark radiation. Keywords: sterile neutrino, dark radiation, mass of universe, big bang cosmology, dark sector But this new development underlines the problems that have developed in cosmology, especially when the model (paradigm) being considered is a clear departure from the historical account in Genesis. This has come about because of the dichotomy that has occurred when the total mass of the universe has been measured using two quite different methods. Besides dark energy and dark matter, now a new dark component is being promoted-dark radiation-in the form of a sterile neutrino, which does not interact with electromagnetic radiation or matter except via gravitation. These are sought for in the dark sector of particle physics and in the description of the expanding universe acted upon by gravitation. From various problems in cosmology a need has developed to postulate the existence of unknown types of energy and matter from the dark side. In this modern era darkness has developed a new meaning. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness ( Genesis 1:4, KJV). ![]()
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