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From: stubbs@astroatc.UUCP (Dennis J. Kosterman)
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space,sci.physics,talk.origins
Subject: Re: Big Bang:  Did it happen?
Message-ID: <2951@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 17:19:54 GMT
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Reply-To: stubbs@astroatc.UUCP (Dennis J. Kosterman)
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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In article <822@tahoma.UUCP> jpg3196@tahoma.UUCP (James P. Galasyn) writes:
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>I just heard from a fairly reliable source that CalTech has demonstrated
>the Big Bang never happened.  

     I haven't heard anything else about this, but on the surface it
sounds suspicious.  Scientists don't usually make assertions this dog-
matic.  I don't see how it's possible to say absolutely that the Big
Bang did or did not occur.  We can only talk about probabilities.

                                     Dennis J. Kosterman
                                     uwvax!astroatc!stubbs