The case against cosmology

DOI10.1023/A:1001981929727MaRDI QIDQ1585052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. J. Disney

Publication date 21 August 2001

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009020

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyobservationsscience

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: It is argued that some of the recent claims for cosmology are grossly overblown. Cosmology rests on a very small database: it suffers from many fundamental difficulties as a science (if it is a science at all) whilst observations of distant phenomena are difficult to make and harder to interpret. It is suggested that cosmological inferences should be tentatively made and sceptically received.

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