Re: A second "big bang"

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From: Indestructible Truth Holder
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 19:58

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"Mark Folsom" <folsomman@prodigy.com> wrote in message
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> "George Dishman" <george@briar.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:b20oq3$1q4$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
> >
> > "Mark Folsom" <folsomman@prodigy.com> wrote in message
> > news:v47nmfjb1fhke9@corp.supernews.com...

> > > The basic idea of the big bang seems entirely bullet-proof--a hot,
> > > high-density beginning with subsequent expansion is in perfect accord
> > > with a large number of very careful observations.  It's very unlikely
to be
> > > overthrown completely, and with good reason.
> >
> > What you say is correct, but there is a popular view that
> > the "Big Bang" is supposed continue that model right back
> > to t=0 and in fact explain what happened at t=0.
>
> It's a perfectly valid enterprise for theorists to speculate beyond what's
> firmly known and try to find empirical tests that bear on those
> speculations. If the popular media and the public can't distinguish the
> speculative fringe from the solid science, they need to get some
education.

It's not the popular media nor the public's fault that educational textbooks
and instructors present the speculative fringe and solid science side by
side with little or no differentiation.

> > It is a classic case of thowing the baby out with the bathwater
> > after extrapolating beyond the region of validity.
>
> The extrapolators and the baby throwers are on different sides of the
fence.

Makes little difference when the fence itself has moved into the baby
throwers territory.

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