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Re: Big Bang: How widely accepted?
Carl J Lydick (carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU)
5 Sep 1995 17:13:25 GMT
In article <42a2f8$r8o@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>, ciacon@ix.netcom.com (WAYNE JOHNSON) writes:
=(Robert Roosen) writes:
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=> Correct. The H-bomb calculations are quite similar to the Big
=>Bang stuff. Funding for both areas of study comes from the same
=place.
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=Now wait a minute. Are you saying that Los Alamos is funding
=astronomers? Maybe the particle physics is partially derived from
=nuclear research, but the observations that the theory derives from?
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=As I recall, the microwave background radiation detection and calcs
=came originally from Bell Labs, which did do AEC/DOE research (and
=still does), but the scientists who worked on it (what's his name? I'm
=so ashamed) came up with the measurement doing something entirely
=unrelated to weapons research.
Not to mention that Roosen, in his usual abject ignorance, seems to believe
that the temperatures/pressure during the Big Bang are comparable to those in
an H bomb. As usual, he's completely wrong.
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