Re: Big Bang: How widely accepted?

Roger M. Wilcox (tracer@best.com)
9 Sep 1995 14:10:51 -0700

>In <DE5F81.J8M@crash.cts.com> roosen@crash.cts.com (Robert Roosen) writes:
>
>> Let me put it another way. The Big Band Model is certainly a
^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^

Oh, Seventy-six trombones led the big parade,
With a hundred-and-ten cornets close at hand.

>>nice physical model. It does indeed contain most of the observational
>>information presently available from physical astronomy. However, it is
>>just that--a model. i. e. a fit to a limited set of observations. For
>>instance, the Big Bang does not include telepathy in its model.

(stifled chuckle)
It doesn't include rice pudding or income tax, either.

-- 
tracer@best.com (Jeff Boeing) - FORMERLY - rogerw@cisco.com (Roger M. Wilcox)
----------------- I'm not flying fast, just orbiting low ---------------------
MSTie #38808 | "I'm trying to remember -- there were an awful lot of
| casualties that day." -- Kup, _The Transformers: The Movie_