Matthew Ehret takes on the Big Bang. He argues that the standard picture of a closed universe exploding out of a single point rests on one reading of redshift, and that it carries a bleak view of nature, economics and the human mind.
Working through a slide deck, Matt explains the Doppler effect and how redshift became the yardstick for cosmic distance, looks at the projected collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda, and digs into Halton Arp's atlas of galaxies with very different redshifts that appear physically connected, including pairs of quasars ejected from Seyfert galaxies. He also points out that Edwin Hubble treated the expanding universe as only one hypothesis, and that the Big Bang model came from a Jesuit priest, Georges Lemaitre.
The second half turns to life itself: the vitalist and mechanist debate between Hans Driesch and Wilhelm Roux, Alexander Gurwitsch's onion root experiment, Fritz-Albert Popp's work on biophotons, Luc Montagnier's DNA and water memory experiments, and the Schumann resonance. Matt closes with his book Science Unshackled, now out in Spanish as La Ciencia Liberada, and a likely next topic: Charles Darwin.
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