🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Dec11.214822.10150@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:

>>>Go back to fundimental chemistry.  Phase changes are generally exothermic.
>>
>>Um.  Exactly half of them are exothermic.  The other half are endothermic.
>>:-)
>
>     Really?  Do you rule out phase changes in the early universe that
>     may have no reverse counterpart in this universe?

<raised eyebrow>  Do you have some reason to believe that the reverse
of those phase changes did not immediately precede the ones which we
suppose to have taken place in the first 10^-whatever seconds?  Presumably
if we do a big >crunch<, all of the phase changes would work in reverse...

Joel Polowin
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