Re: Big Bang: How widely accepted?
Chris Metzler (metzler@pablo.physics.lsa.umich.edu)
24 Aug 1995 08:52:15 GMT
In article <DDr54r.I5A@crash.cts.com>, roosen@crash.cts.com (Robert Roosen) writes:
|> This theory is so tenaciously held and promoted by the physicists
|> that Hoyle and Burbidge are excluded from conferences on the subject.
|> Burbidge recently presented the John Schopp Memorial Lecture at San Diego
|> State U in which he presented the above view. He said further that he
|> and Hoyle have been reduced to cashing the lectures and heckling during
|> the question period.
This is ridiculous. I've personally been to a couple of conferences where
Geoff Burbidge was the chair of the session in which I or friends of mine
were presenting papers -- sessions on topics in extragalactic astronomy
or cosmology -- and I've only been doing this stuff for three years or so.
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Chris Metzler
Department of Physics, University of Michigan 313-764-4607 (office)
Randall Lab, 500 E. University 313-996-9249 (home)
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120 USA E-MAIL: metzler@umich.edu
"I know he can get the job . . .but can he *do* the job?" -- Mr. Waturi
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