OK, you want discussion topics, I got discussion topics. 8^)
Seriously.
In this months Scientific American, James E. Peebles, described as "one of the
world's most distinguished cosmologists", stated that "the universe is
expanding and cooling is the essence of the big bang theory. You will notice I
have said nothing about an "explosion"--the big bang theory describes how our
universe is evolving, not how it began."
(http://www.sciam.com/2001/0101issue/0101peebles.html)
Come again? Just about everything I've read about the BB includes something
like this quote from a New Scientist article _Up Up and Away to the Beginning
of Time_ "
(http://clone.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/big3/bigbang/uua1.html) "the big
bang explosion in which the Universe was born" After all, if its only about
expansion and cooling, where does the "bang" fit in?
Can anyone straighten me out?
Doug
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