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Article: Whither The Big Bang?(grand universe theory of creation)
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- Popular Mechanics
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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Astronomy's most fundamental idea, the notion that everything in the universe--including time itself--originated in a spontaneous "big bang" that occurred 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, is being quietly challenged by a simpler theory of creation. This new grand universe (GU) concept claims that the observational data long considered to be proof of the fiery birth of the universe is actually unambiguous evidence of a past collision between already existing formations of matter and antimatter.
"Everything concerning a fireball beginning is wrong and leads the standard cosmological model to deadlock," says Anatoli A. Vankov, the Russian mathematical physicist ...