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From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Big Bang:  Did it happen?
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Date: 20 Dec 89 15:31:49 GMT
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In article <2951@astroatc.UUCP> stubbs@astroatc.UUCP (Dennis J. Kosterman) writes:
>......  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.
                                                    !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Likelihoods, not probabilities, *please*. Or are you all unreformed Bayesians
out there?


Chris Thompson
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