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In article <Bz4BCu.76p@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> polowin@chem.queensu.ca (Joel Polowin) writes:
>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...

     <Another raised eyebrow>  Do you have any reason to think Omega
     is one?

                          dale bass
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