Hale_Bopp (Rob):

Thank you for the good information about the Steinhardt and Turok article. I had wondered how the accelerating universe would fit into this scenario and am comforted to know that it applies here. I hope that there will be some observational method for determining this theory outside of a computer program. I, myself, like theories to have some basis in the real universe (such as the CMBR was seen as a remnant of the Big Bang). I always enjoy finding out new ideas, but I like more than a theoretical basis for understanding them.

I am not a scientist, so I shall certainly let the scientists battle over this without my two cents worth of ignorance interfering.

Thank you for the information. It is exciting. SCIENCE must think well about it. If it is valid, this will throw a lot of loving ideas out the windows and into the trash bins.

Probably I will remain stuck in the middle between two great ideas. Quite a predicament. I hope I do not get *squished*!

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