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From: merrill@rex.DEC
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Subject: "big bang" a big bust?
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 08:09:25 EST
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It only takes a couple of stars' worth of mass compressed together
to create such a high gravitational field that bends space so much that
even the speed of light does not exceed the escape velocity.  In other
words light cannot get out.  You have undoubtedly heard this described
as a "black hole."  Apt description.


Surly if "all the mass of the universe" were compressed to gether you'd
have the ultimate black hole and since nothing can travel faster than
light nothing could get out.  Therefore the universe could not possibly
have started from a single point "big bang."

I have only ever heard of two ways to counter this using higher math and
physics: 1) in the first 1E-?? seconds the laws of phisics were different
than we now observe them to be (e.g. Planck's constant, wasn't) and
2) there was no "bang" just an infinitely long process of accrual (one
of Fred Hoyle's cosmological contributions -- he's an astronomer as well
as a writer.).

Curious,
	Rick