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Article: Big Bang Theory Goes Bust
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 6, 1991
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the universe,
along come front-page stories in national newspapers this week
saying it isn't. Stunned by new information on the breadth of the
cosmos, science is revising its best guess about how the universe
was formed. It's a Black Hole thing, you wouldn't understand.
Apparently, the Big Bang Theory is kaput, finito, sayonara,
down the toidy. Cosmologists now say the universe wasn't created by
a sudden, single explosive pop, a sound even louder than the opening
chords of "In a Gadda Da Vida."
Briefly, the Big Bang Theory went like this: Once upon a time
long ago - even before, if you can imagine it, single-portion Lean
Cuisine - a ...