On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:26:38 -0600 Micheal Ellis <onyxmirr at earthlink.net>
writes:
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> >That is certainly my understanding of the matter. Anyway, while
> >the Big Bang cosmology represented a very obvious development
> >from the notion of an expanding universe, it is not the only
> >possible one. The Steady State cosmology that was championed
> >by the late Fred Hoyle and Herman Bondi, also posited an
> >expanding universe, but unlike the Big Bang theory, it held
> >that the universe had no beginning and no end. Instead,
> >it was conceived as always existing, forever expanding,
> >with a continuous creation of new matter, keeping the
> >cosmic density constant over time. The Big Bang theory
> >triumphed over the Steady State theory in the 1960s with
> >the discovery of cosmic background radiation,
>
> up to now is this being reconsidered? considering alleged hyper
> novas
> (exploding black holes, whatever) emit the same radiation? gamma ray
> bursts?
> did i misread those potential implications? does this not suggest
> that potentially
> "big bangs" are happening all the time?
Yes, that is indeed what some contemporary cosmologists are now postulating. And I suppose that this could possible lead to a sort of dialectical synthesis of Big Bang cosmology with the Steady State theory.
Jim F.
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> ~M.E.
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