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Old 28-February-2008, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Jerry View Post
The answer is never that simple.

There are mainstream concepts that are jealously guarded: The Big Bang and the three pillars that support it: Metallicity evolution, expansion and the CMB.
Wasn't the Big Bang theory (its name even coined by one of its detractors) originally ATM? IIRC the mainstream view was very much Steady State.

Perhaps Steady-Staters are just trying to guard an older orthodoxy?