The Big Bang's Last Great Prediction 80
StartsWithABang (3485481) writes "Even with the add-ons of dark matter, dark energy and inflation, the Big Bang still thrives as the most successful scientific model of the Universe ever constructed. It not only accounting for phenomena like the abundance of the light elements, the cosmic microwave background, and the Universe's large-scale structure, but it's led to observable predictions about their details that have since been verified. But there's one thing the Big Bang has generically predicted that we haven't been able to test: a cosmic background of low-energy, relic neutrinos."
Re:Theory as it stands is wrong (Score:5, Informative)
No.
Look up inflation.
Re:Theory as it stands is wrong (Score:5, Informative)
The issue is that the big bang implies the universe is fairly isotropic; it can be clumpy to a certain degree, and the exact degree of clumpiness depends on the exact model you use. Although this Great Wall is a bigger clump than current models allow, you can imagine that there could be other big bang models where the allowed clumpiness is a bit larger. (In fact we know from other observations that we will have to come up with slightly different big bang models than the ones we currently use anyway.)