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Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
October 31, 2017 at 8:48 am
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?
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RE: Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
October 31, 2017 at 8:58 am
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(October 31, 2017 at 8:48 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: 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?
Rhonda, are you in school for physics, or doing self-study? If you are teaching yourself astrophysics, then holy shit, you're amazing! 👍
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RE: Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
October 31, 2017 at 9:01 am
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
October 31, 2017 at 9:11 am
(October 31, 2017 at 9:01 am)Cyberman Wrote: 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.
Well, that backfired! (pun intended)
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RE: Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
October 31, 2017 at 10:17 am
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Didn't it just?
Incidentally, the Big Bang was an explosion in the same sense as a Baby Boom. Hilarious though the image is of detonating infants.
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
October 31, 2017 at 10:54 am
(October 31, 2017 at 8:58 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Rhonda, are you in school for physics, or doing self-study? If you are teaching yourself astrophysics, then holy shit, you're amazing! 👍
Ha ha! No, I'm a fiction author. I don't remember why I first got interested in quantum physics, but when I found out there's something scientists call the quantum realm, I knew I had to write a novel about it. Last year Alex K helped me authenticate the names and behaviors of elementary particles and I wrote a novel where this kid gets trapped in the quantum realm.
Now I'm writing the sequel where another kid gets trapped in the cosmic microwave background. Alex, vorlon, Brew and a few other cats are helping me with the facts.
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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RE: Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
October 31, 2017 at 11:01 am
(October 31, 2017 at 10:17 am)Cyberman Wrote: Didn't it just?
Incidentally, the Big Bang was an explosion in the same sense as a Baby Boom. Hilarious though the image is of detonating infants.
I've seen cartoon of women "going for best distance" in the delivery room. 
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RE: Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
October 31, 2017 at 2:43 pm
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Verse 1 is pertinent here.
(Incidentally, I still have the original vinyl album.)
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
October 31, 2017 at 4:46 pm
(October 31, 2017 at 11:01 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (October 31, 2017 at 10:17 am)Cyberman Wrote: Didn't it just?
Incidentally, the Big Bang was an explosion in the same sense as a Baby Boom. Hilarious though the image is of detonating infants.
I've seen cartoon of women "going for best distance" in the delivery room.
I've advocated more than once here of using cardio shock paddles to assist women delivering babies.
Instead of hours of contractions, just one BIG one.
And that fetus is going to ricochet off the walls.
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RE: Just When I Thought I Understood the Big Bang
October 31, 2017 at 5:00 pm
(October 31, 2017 at 4:46 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: (October 31, 2017 at 11:01 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I've seen cartoon of women "going for best distance" in the delivery room.
I've advocated more than once here of using cardio shock paddles to assist women delivering babies.
Instead of hours of contractions, just one BIG one.
And that fetus is going to ricochet off the walls.
Where's Larson when we need him?
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