Re: Big Bang: How widely accepted?

Erik Max Francis (max@alcyone.darkside.com)
Tue, 29 Aug 95 11:42:05 PDT

elwest@Teleport.com (Wesley Taylor) writes:

> You might try to read outside astronomy a little. Hannes Alfvens work in
> Plasma Physics has done some real damage to Big Bang. The BB theory is NOT
> almost universally accepted. There are some steady staters left and a whole
> new crop of plasma cosmology theorists. Try Lerners "The Big Bang Never
> Happened " as a start. He gives an excellent descripton of teh alternates
> and the problems in publishing challenges to big bang.

No, the big bang _is_ still almost universally accepted, despite a few
groups waiting in the wings. Despite what others would have you believe,
the big bang still is by far and away the best cosmological model we
have.

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