Ruquist, try something you claim some professional
stature in (rather than telling me what to do :) )

How do you answer this passage (other than the usual insipid one-liner you give 85 % of the time)?

"Studying Einstein's equations, (Lemaitre) found, as other had before him, that the solution Einstein proposed was unstable. A slight expansion would cause the repulsive force to increase and gravity to weaken, leading to unlimited expansion, or a slight contracction would, vice versa, lead to collapse. Lemaitre, independently reaching conclusions achieved five years earlier by the Russian mathematician Alexander Friedmann, showed that Einstein's universe is only one special solution among infinite possible cosmologies -- some expanding, some contracting, depending on the value of the cosmological constant and the "initial conditions" of the universe."

from The Big Ban Never Happened by Eric J. Lerner

Ten to one you give no worthwhile reply

• Singulatities - yaniru - November 26, 2002 - 18:41 UTC
  • Twit - carefuluniverse - November 26, 2002 - 19:30 UTC
    • And apparently you don't approve of reading books. - yaniru - November 27, 2002 - 03:10 UTC
      • nt - quiet - November 27, 2002 - 04:46 UTC
  • Its the same sign that Einstein suggested... - bruce - November 27, 2002 - 01:34 UTC
    • His theory does not predict that - yaniru - November 27, 2002 - 03:12 UTC
      • Sorry Bruce - yaniru - November 27, 2002 - 03:15 UTC
    • I think it's negative - yaniru - November 27, 2002 - 12:31 UTC