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Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
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Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
I wanted to get a picture of what happened during the big bang, so I was reading the 5th chapter of Isaac Asimov's nonfiction book How Did We Find Out About the Universe.

He starts with something called the Cosmic Egg and goes on to say that this egg exploded and a Russian American physicist dubbed the explosion big bang.

This is astronomically opposed to what I've learned so far from the Knochel-Hawking school of cosmology.

This book was written in 1983. So at what point did scientists postulate that the beg bang was not an explosion, and what led them to this postulation?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

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Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang - by Rhondazvous - October 31, 2017 at 8:48 am

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