I am blogging this for posteriority. My prediction is that within the next century from now, the Big Bang theory will be discarded.
Right now, the theory seems to adequately explain the current expanding behaviour of the universe, and various properties of space-time.
Some months ago I was studying the nature of time and the dimensions of space, and I intuitively grasped that the Big Bang Theory is actually nonsense, even though it fits most of our current understanding of things.
I fully expect that the current Big Bang model will be replaced by a different model.
My intuitive grasp is that there is actually no beginning to the universe, that you cannot go to before time existed, that time never not existed (even though it is an artefact of our dimensions).
I think I probably have close to 34 bits of data that leads me to realize there’s a high probability that there is no beginning to the universe, or no Big Bang. Something else is going on that makes it look like the universe started from a small point and is rapidly expanding, but I have no hypothesis to put forward to explain that.
Perhaps the so-called dark matter have something to do with the fundamental “origin” or properties of the universe.
I knew I was onto something. It appears some physicists are looking for Cosmological Models with no Big Bang
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1750
It appears that it could result in a simpler explanation of the universe, one without the dark energy paradox.