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- From: wengland@stephsf.com (Bill England)
- Subject: Re: infinite universe
- References: <1993Jan4.184114.151@vms.huji.ac.il>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.85402.22778@stephsf.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:54:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.184114.151@vms.huji.ac.il> tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
- >Another question from a non-physicist.
- >
- >I frequently read that cosmologists debate whether the
- >universe has infinite size. If the Big Bang started
- >at a definite time in the past, and has since expanded
- >at a finite speed, how can it be infinite? What am
- >I missing?
-
- The BB is still speculation and in fact may never have
- happened. Observational results are tending to refute
- it and other explanations are possible to explain
- both the Hubble expansion and the 3 degree background
- radiation. In fact recent observations (Sci AM Dec 92)
- indicate that recession redshifts are QUANTIZED. This is
- difficut to explain by simple recession of the light
- source.
-
- For better details read "The Big Bang Never Happend"
- by Mike Lener I believe.
-
-
- (Titles prediced to be out this decade " The Big Bang Goes Bust")
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- +- Bill England, wengland@stephsf.COM -----------------------------------+
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