Re: Evidence for "Big Bang Theory"

Richard A. Schumacher (schumach@convex.com)
20 Apr 1995 19:18:31 -0500

In <382@landmark.iinet.net.au> gil@landmark.iinet.net.au (Gil Hardwick) asserts:

>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.