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Subject: Re: big bangs
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Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 06:46:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 10 06:46:00 1984
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From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

We refer to R.Reagan as "THE President of the USA" even though other
presidents came before him. Likewise we refer to our current big-bang
as "THE big bang", and I think the terminology is appropriate,
providing when somebody asks about the terminology we define "THE big
bang" as "the one that caused this universe we're in now, as
contrasted with predecessors and successors and alternatives which
might also exist in time" rather than misleading the asker into
thinking there was/willbe/is only one bing bang ever.