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Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
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RE: Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
Actually it was Sir Fred Hoyle who coined the epithet Big Bang, or at least popularised it, in a BBC interview. Hoyle was a firm proponent of the Steady State model and because the new model lacked supporting evidence at the time, as well as not being as explanatory as the prevailing one, he was trying to discredit through mockery.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang - by Cyberman - October 31, 2017 at 9:01 am

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