Re: Evidence for "Big Bang Theory"

Erik Max Francis (max@alcyone.darkside.com)
Sat, 22 Apr 95 14:04:55 PDT

schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:

> In <382@landmark.iinet.net.au> gil@landmark.iinet.net.au (Gil Hardwick) asser
>
> >To assert that such an explosion JUST HAPPENED out of nothing defies
> >everything we know about explosions. And catastrophes.
>
> But not everything we know about physics. Quantum mechanics permits
> temporary violations of the conservation laws. The visible universe
> may be one such.

Besides, calling the Big Bang an "explosion" does not do it justice,
because it wasn't anything like an explosion.

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