Massive
Quasar Cluster Refutes Core Cosmology Principle
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Astronomers
recently found a distant collection of quasars. But those quasars shouldn’t
exist. And while they certainly appear connected, they’re spread too far across
space for standard secular models of the structure and origin of the universe
to accommodate. “It is the largest structure ever seen in the entire universe,”
according to astrophysicist Roger Clowes from the University of Central
Lancashire.1
Clowes
led a team of researchers, who published their discovery in The Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,2 in analyzing
data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. They found quasars that are connected
across a distance that far exceeds the predictions by an assumption tightly
linked to the Big Bang, called the “Cosmological Principle.” The distances
certainly exceed imagination.
Creation
physicist D. Russell Humphreys wrote in 2003,
The foundational assumption
of the Big Bang theory [is] the “Copernican Principle” or “Cosmological
Principle,” which requires that matter uniformly fill allspace at all times—even
at the very beginning. Since there would never be any empty space around the
matter, there could never be a boundary around the matter. Lacking such a
boundary, we could never determine a unique center, such as a center of mass,
inside it.3
The
Cosmological Principle assumes no center or edge, with its matter evenly
distributed over large scales. Accordingly, it proposes no unique places
throughout the universe. Of course, this confronts Scripture, which clearly
indicates that the earth is the center of God’s focus on redeeming men and
women from the beginning until now. Secular cosmologists must assume that the
Cosmological Principle is valid because their totally discredited Big Bang
cosmology rests on it. But empirical evidence finds itself arrayed against it.
Clowes
told the Royal Astronomical Society, “This is significant not just because of
its size but also because it challenges the Cosmological Principle, which has
been widely accepted since Einstein.”1
A
competing perspective, called the Anthropic Principle, assumes that unique
places can exist within the universe. Specifically, it suggests that the earth
was uniquely designed for human survival and enjoyment.4 Whereas
the Cosmological Principle has not found supporting evidence, the stunningly
improbable collection of earth’s life-friendly parameters does support the
Anthropic Principle.
If space
is uniform in all directions, as held by the Cosmological Principal, then it
should not contain any structures larger than about a billion light-years wide.
But Clowes’ team found this strung-out cluster of quasars—very high energy
centers of mass that evolutionists believe to be the predecessors of whole
galaxies—that stretches 1.5 billion light years across its center. Its longest
dimension measures almost four billion light years!1
Clowes’
observation shatters this Big Bang assumption multiplied by four. “This is
hugely exciting—not least because it runs counter to our current understanding
of the scale of the universe.”1 It is exciting also because it
runs counter to a core secular assumption about the origin of
the universe. Without the Cosmological Principle, there is no Big Bang. In the
process, this news adds confirmation to the Bible-friendly Anthropic Principle.
References
1.
Astronomers discover the largest
structure in the universe. Royal Astronomical Society press release,
January 11, 2013.
2.
Clowes, R. et al. A structure in the early Universe at z ∼ 1.3 that
exceeds the homogeneity scale of the R-W concordance cosmology. The
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Published online
before print, January 11, 2013.
3.
Humphreys, D. R. Prestigious Journal Endorses Basics
of Creationist Cosmology. Institute for Creation Research. Posted on
icr.org, December 1, 2003, accessed January 16, 2013.
4.
Guillermo, G. and J. W. Richards. 2004. The Privileged
Planet: How our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery. Washington,
D.C. : Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Image
credit: NASA
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation
Research.
Article posted on January 18, 2013.
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