Subduction Zone
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You got fooled by a click bait title. That article does not say that the Big Bang itself may be in crisis. It only says that the current model of the Big Bang may need to be rethought. Those are not the same thing at all.The inflation theory is a proposed solution to the homogeneity and critical density of the universe, as well as the missing monopole problem. In that sense it's almost a textbook example of an ad hoc hypothesis. Since it is unobservable in principle (ie. the theory itself precludes observation) it has no empirical, as opposed to theoretical, support.
I didn't say the Big Bang theory was in crisis, I said there are reasons to believe it may be approaching crisis. Some astronomers certainly are asking that question, for the reasons I have already given. ie unresolved questions about rapid expansion, dark matter, dark energy.
Is the Big Bang in crisis?
And we can observe the effects of it.. Specific predictions were made and met. You failed to support your ad hoc claim because you do not even know the evidence for the Big Bang.