Einstein must be wrong: How general relativity fails to explain the universe

[admin]

As new and powerful telescopes gather fresh data about the universe, they reveal the limits of older theories like Einstein's relativity.

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[BAWsciencerules]

I have always felt that general relativity and the theory of gravity are wrong. Unfortunately, I can't not prove why.

 

[Dhalgren]

Georges Lemaître was the person who proposed the Big Bang, not Einstein.

 

[TorbjornLarsson]

What a difference two months do, the origibal Conversation article was written as the first Webb observations - as hoped for - would entice and confound the astronomical community. Since then the early question have had - as expected - mainstream explanations and Webb has joined the ever increasing supportive tests of general relativity and the rejection of "alternative theories".

Re the mischaracterization of the space expansion that is at the core of "big bang" cosmologies the original idea of "a primeval atom" has been replaced by observation of inflation. The observed low energy slow roll inflation is quite possibly eternal - so no need for an initial condition - and seem to be unavoidably multiverse spawning - so no need for anthropic "finetuning" of vacuum energy.