I was reading an article about the Steady-State theory yesterday. I don't know much about Thomas Gold but I do know that Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi were respected scientists, in Britain, and other countries.
Bondi was considered to be an expert in several areas of science (not just astronomy) and I wonder whether he finally accepted the "Big Bang" when the evidence,for this theory,became almost impossible to resist?
I understand that one of the attractions of the Steady-State theory,for some individuals,was that it put forward the idea that the universe had always existed and so there was no need for a beginning or moment of "creation".
Gold,Hoyle,and Bondi were all highly intelligent men but surely their theory implies that an infinite amount of time had already passed and that this is simply not possible because infinity,unlike time,only can exist in the human mind or imagination.