Re: The BIG Bang!

Gary Eickmeier wrote:
I am not a scientist, just an intelligent man of some education. So I read in the newspaper that scientists have "the smoking gun" that proves that during the Big Bang the universe went from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all observable space in a trillion-trillionth of a second. It makes me kind of mad that they think they can tell us any piece of crap and we will believe it.

Who, the astronomers or the reporters? Articles about physics in the popular press are almost always full of crazy nonsense. If you want to know what the astronomers are actually saying, read their papers---for example,

http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/dr2/pub_papers/threeyear/parameters/wmap_3yr_param.pdf


Or read Ned Wright's cosmology tutorial:

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm

which is almost unique is being written for a lay audience and also free of misrepresentation of the subject matter. If you attack those articles, at least you'll be attacking something that resembles science.

-- Ben
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