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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Friday Flower, sort of ...
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:52:07 -0500
I'm still pulling for Fred and the Steady State.  The current theories 
of physics and cosmology are beginning to sound too much like "epicycles".

Chuck Norcutt


Moose wrote:
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cloud
>> Fred Hoyle - serious astronomer and so-so writer who, ironically, invented 
>> the term Big Bang.
>> I remember it - fairly ordinary but I had enough stamina to finish it!
>>   
> 
> I don't think that was it. I'm sure I read Hoyle's book, and I'd 
> remember if that was it. Seems more likely an older book and maybe an 
> Eastern European author- maybe. Certainly someone more unknown and 
> mysterious to me than Hoyle.
> 
> To those challenged in the history of cosmology, the irony is that Fred 
> Hoyle was the leader of the Flat Earth Society - oops, the Steady State 
> Universe group of astronomers and astrophysicists. Evidence of expansion 
> was by then irrefutable, but they held that density stayed steady, as I 
> recall, through matter popping into existence in deep space.
> 
> George Gamow was the major mouthpiece for the expanding universe with a 
> fixed quantity of matter, so density was dropping. Hoyle was said to 
> have coined the term Big Bang as a taunt, to make Gamow & Co. sound 
> silly. Didn't work; he gave the name that stuck to the theory that won.
> 
> Can you tell I was a science nerd back when all this was current? :-D
> 
> Moose
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