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- From: palmer@cco.caltech.edu (David M. Palmer)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: "Modeling" the Expanding Universe?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 06:37:25 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
-
- >One ought to keep in mind that the phrase "big bang" was made up as
- >a derisive comment by Fred Hoyle; in his famous BBC Radio lectures, I
- >believe (the book is "The Nature of the Universe").
-
- And the term has fallen out of favor recently, being replaced by
- the phrase "The Horrendous Space Kablooie" (Watterson, 1991) which
- has the pedagogical advantage of makeing it quite clear that it is
- space which is expanding.
-
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- David Palmer palmer@alumni.caltech.edu
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