Journal
STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 86-96Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.11.005
Keywords
Cosmology; Astrophysics; Sociology; Philosophy
Funding
- Spanish Science Ministry [AYA2007-67625-CO2-01, AYA2012-33211]
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I review some theoretical ideas in cosmology different from the standard Big Bang: the quasi-steady state model, the plasma cosmology model, non-cosmological redshifts, alternatives to non-baryonic dark matter and/or dark energy, and others. Cosmologists do not usually work within the framework of alternative cosmologies because they feel that these are not at present as competitive as the standard model. Certainly, they are not so developed, and they are not so developed because cosmologists do not work on them. It is a vicious circle. The fact that most cosmologists do not pay them any attention and only dedicate their research time to the standard model is to a great extent due to a sociological phenomenon (the snowball effect or groupthink). We might well wonder whether cosmology, our knowledge of the Universe as a whole, is a science like other fields of physics or a predominant ideology. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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