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Subject: Big Bang
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Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 09:37:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 09:37:47 1984
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There has been much discussion on whether the universe is "open" or "closed".
The thought of a "open" universe is unappealing to us because we like
to think that "something" will go on forever. If the "Big Bang" was a one
time occurance and it we accept the Law of Entropy, the future of the 
universe is rather bleak.

The notion of the "close" universe is more appealing because of the
cyclic nature of the universe in that theory. We may perish but at least the universe will continue on.

One other theory states that we exist in a universe within a universe. That
our universe may be a atom in another universe and that the creation and 
destruction of our world occurs in a "split second" of the other world.
After all the most basic thing to us, time, is only relative. We "time"
the univrese by how many times the Earth goes around the Sun. Just think
if our year to an outside observer (God?) takes by that observer's watch a 
tenth of a second, then the whole life of the universe has taken a couple of
minutes.

Film at Eleven.