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The Electric Universe – What If Gravity Isn’t Real

For centuries, we’ve believed gravity holds the universe together. But what if that’s the biggest misunderstanding in science ...
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New theory challenges Big Bang, dark matter, and dark energy in the birth of the universe

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...
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7 ‘Scientific’ Theories of How the Universe Formed That Reject the Big Bang

The Big Bang theory has provided the most widely accepted basis of our understanding of the universe since it was first proposed by Georges Lemaitre in 1927. In short, it posits that all the matter in ...
Nature

A Treatise on Electrical Theory and the Problem of the Universe, considered from the Physical Point of View, with Mathematical Appendices

THE partial success which has attended the recent attempts of Einstein and Minkowski to found an electromagnetic system of mechanics has tended to strengthen the popular idea that the solution of ...