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Old 04-October-2004, 05:09 PM
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Bigga Wha?

There is another theoretical problem with a sudden expansion of space within nanoseconds from the 'day before there was a yesterday', which surprisingly was not noticed by Lemaitre and company: Since we measure all time from ourselves backwards as we look into space, as distant cosmic light reaches us, means we are on the edge of the Big Bang; then everywhere we look we are looking into its origin, so every point on the 360' sphere at the farthest distance is [towards]* its center. But this creates an irreconcilable paradox: How can we be on the edge of the Big Bang and at the center of the universe, since all points in the universe are its center, at the same time? Anyone, anyone...?

I like this pix of Hoyle's bad boy smirk, he did not believe in BBT either.
Flash, Big Bang, Wallop! What a picture!
:^o

*(in response to later post)
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