Here is another quote from LaViolette's book "Genesis of the Cosmos," (he says it better than me), "Big Bang cosmologists conceive the Universe to be contained within a finite sphere, an expanding bubble of space-time that has attained a radius of some 14 Billion light-years. They claim that nothing lies beyond this bubble of physical manifestation, no existence of any kind. Just as theologians did in medieval times, today's cosmologists have confined the heavens within an Aristotelian "crystalline sphere".
This is a major problem for LaViolette. From the errors in this passage, he clearly has very little understanding of standard Big Bang comsology. How can anyone possibly trust his ideas, no matter how "new and interesting", when he is either unable or unwilling to learn the very subject he is claiming to be revolutionising.
No matter what measure of space-time is taken, the Universe most certainly does not have a radius of anything anywhere near so small as 14bn lyrs. In fact, it is still quite possible from observation that the Universe is infinite in extent.
Furthermore, no qualified cosmologist will claim that "nothing lies beyond" the Universe, for in the classic Big Bang comsology, there is no such concept as "beyond the Universe". Even if finite in size, the Universe has no edge, no place from which to consider a "beyond". Such naive thinking comes from layman "knowledge", not any form of understanding of General Relativity and relativistic cosmology.
And everyone who takes science seriously as a search for truth and not as a religion or a means to tenure or to avoid ostracism by pygmies in a herd knows it.
Again, criticisms need to come from a position of knowledge, not ignorance. There are those that have seriously questioned the Big Bang cosmology: Halton Arp, Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge, amongst a few others. They have been shown to be incorrect, but at least they are (were) scientists who certainly understand what they are criticising. Sadly, the same cannot be said for LaViolette.
Furthermore, you do realise that many in the field of cosmology are looking beyond the classic Big Bang comsology, for something that replaces it - ideas such as the Ekpyrotic Universe, brane collisions, the no-boundary proposal, etc. These do away with the Big Bang, whilst attempting to match observations. How do the researchers behind these ideas square with your insulting and ignorant accusations of pygmies and herd mentalities?