White Hole Cosmology
Russell Humphreys, an American physicist and creationist author, proposed in 1994 that the Earth is located near the center of a finite and bounded universe and that the entire universe expanded out of a white hole. He claims that relativistic time dilation explains how billions of years elapsed in the distant universe while only a few days or weeks passed on Earth. Humphreys claims that his model explains cosmological redshifts and the cosmic microwave background radiation.
Humphreys' cosmology has been criticized by several creationists, and is rejected by the scientific community.
According to Alex Williams, Humphreys' proposal grows out of the addition of three assumptions to Einstein's equations: the universe has expanded from a previously denser state, the universe is bounded in space, and the earth is located at or near the center of the universe. The first assumption is supported by big bang cosmology, but according to Williams, the final two are rejected by the scientific community.
Physicist and philosopher of science J. Brian Pitts states that the result of Humphreys' proposal "is simply a modest variant of Big Bang cosmology that provides no help for young-earth creationists' light transit time problem".
Read more about this topic: Creationist Cosmologies
Famous quotes containing the words white and/or hole:
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.... It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic. It is, appropriately, logic with a hole in it.”
—Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)