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John Kierein

John Kierein

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John Kierein is a physicist with forty years of experience in aerospace who proposed a radical challenge to the Big Bang theory, arguing instead for a static, eternal universe in which cosmological redshift is caused by the Compton effect rather than expansion. As a guest on late-night radio, he presented his alternative cosmological model and cited Edwin Hubble's own reservations about interpreting redshift as proof of an expanding universe.

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June 12, 1996: Why the Big Bang Theory is Wrong - John Kierein

Jun 12, 1996
2h 54m
Physicist John Kierein presents a radical challenge to modern cosmology, arguing that the universe never began with a Big Bang and instead exists as a static, eternal system. Drawing on his 40 years in aerospace physics and a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame, Kierein explains how the Compton effect causes light fro...