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From: panoff@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert M. Panoff)
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space,sci.physics,talk.origins
Subject: Re: Big Bang:  Did it happen?
Summary: plasma contraction
	 New York Academy of Sciences article
Message-ID: <7495@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 89 02:46:07 GMT
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Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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In article <822@tahoma.UUCP>, jpg3196@tahoma.UUCP (James P. Galasyn) writes:
> 
> I just heard from a fairly reliable source that CalTech has demonstrated
> the Big Bang never happened.  

Cjeck out the latest issue of The Sciences, published by the New York
Academy of Science.  There are a number of fine articles, including one
by Anthony Peratt of Los Alamos which discusses how the universe could
have come to be the way it is without postulating a Big Bang.  This is a
far cry from sayong that it ``proves'' the Big Bang never occurred.  If
there is enough interest, I will summarize this article for the net.
The article is titled, ``Not With a Bang -- The Universe May Have
Evolved from a Vast Sea of Plasma.''  One quotation is worth including:
``Many physicists believe the time is fast approaching when the big bang
must prove its worth anew or step out of the limelight.''
-- 
rmp, for the Bob's of the World