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In the episode, the book was brought up by guest Brian Keating, who noted that Lerner claimed recent JWST images disproved the Big Bang theory and that his alternative model explained observations better, though it lacked an explanation for cosmic expansion. Keating explained that astronomers have repeatedly encountered Lerner's resurfacing claims and remained skeptical, treating the work as a controversial critique rather than a credible alternative.
Episode: Did the Big Bang Happen? | 9.18.22
Eric Lerner's book and article of the same name argued that the recently released images from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict the Big Bang theory, suggesting galaxies were too small, mature, and numerous to have formed shortly after the Big Bang.
He has been writing about this since 1991 I believe and in that time every time some new observation comes out this claim resurfaces so needless to say astronomers are quite miffed at him but I think it's fun and fair to criticize the theory nothing is sacrosanct and so we can get into some of the both the errors in his model of the universe but also some of the support for the standard Big Bang theory.
What Mr. Lerner is claiming is that those claims which we known about for a hundred years and a match all observations are incorrect that that is wrong and in fact luckily from his perspective he has a theory that explains every single observation better than he claims the Big Bang except he has no way to account for the seeming expansion of space and time so he just denies it and for the last 30 years since he first published a book by the same almost the exact same title as this recent article The Big Bang Never Happened.