Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!KIRK.TYM@OFFICE-2.ARPA From: KIRK.TYM@OFFICE-2.ARPA Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: big bangs Message-ID: <12126@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 17:17:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12126 Posted: Mon Apr 9 17:17:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Apr-84 00:56:29 EST Lines: 13 From: Kirk Kelley This discussion should probably move to the Physics list. Have you ever wondered why astronomers and physicists keep refering to THE big bang. Surely it does not take all the mass and time of the universe before a black hole produces a singularity that leads to an explosion. Not all physicists subscribe to the big bang. Fred Hoyle, formerly of Cambridge, has said a sickly pall now hangs over the big-bang theory. Jayant Narlikar, a leading Indian theoretical physicist comments "Astrophysicists of today who hold that the `ultimate cosmological problem' has been more or less solved may well be in for a few surprises before this century is out." -- meditator on nothing