Another big step towards an open, public debate over the validity of the Big Bang, expanding-universe hypothesis came September 3 with the publication in the New York Times Opinion section of an article titled "Crisis in Cosmology " (and titled online as "The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel" ) by Dr. Adam Frank and Dr. Marcelo Gleiser. Now it is hardly news that there is a crisis in cosmology. Researchers have been discussing that for nearly 30 years and it has been big in the mass media since 2019. But what is new and important is the admission by well-known cosmologists like Frank and Gleiser that new observations mean that we may need "a radical departure from the standard model" of cosmology, one that requires us "to change how we think of the elemental components of the universe, possibly even the nature of sp