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Article: `Big Bang' Sucked Into Black Hole; Cosmically Correct Seek to Rename Theory
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- The Washington Post
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- June 16, 1993
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And now, the Bangbusters and the Cosmic Correctness Police.
But first:
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Then, about 15 billion years later, astrophysicists started
calling this event the Big Bang. The idea was, the universe got
created when a speck of matter exploded in the manner of an
incredibly small hand grenade driving an infinitely large amount of
shrapnel in all directions. Big. Bang. Actually, this was not just
the Big Bang, it was the biggest bang, the ur-bang, the Numero Uno
Bang, the mother of all bangs, the bango di tutti bangi.
What a great phrase! Two words, two syllables. Unlike the usual
run of scientific or religious terms, such as "photosynthesis" ...