Re: When Branes Collide

[Doug Craigen <dcc@ESCAPE.CA>]

David Bowman wrote:
> Regarding Doug C.'s question:
>
> > I've been asked about the following:
> > http://www.sciencenews.org/20010922/bob9.asp
> >
> > This is far outside of any topics where I claim to speak with
> > authority.  Can anybody here say if this is really being taken
> seriously
> > as an alternative to the Big Bang or not?
>
> It is *not* an alternative to the Big Bang; it's an alternative to
> *inflation* (& it's serious).

Your few, but well chosen, words made the article a lot clearer to me.
Statements such as:
  {"We might have used the term `Big Bang', but that name was taken,"
jokes Ovrut.}
Were leading me in the wrong direction.  As I said, I'm no expert on
this stuff.


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Doug Craigen
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