oelequud

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   by oelequud 11y ago

   Well, the term "big bang" was originally coined by Fred Hoyle, who was a proponent of the alternative steady state model of cosmology. Many belive that it was meant to be pejorative and to ridicule the idea of a "beginning&qu
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   by oelequud 11y ago

   I don't understand what you mean by that. In your first comment, you said that general relativity predicted that an infinite amount of time would have passed since the initial singularity. But that is not true: If you apply general rel
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   by oelequud 11y ago

   You don't. You solve them starting from now and then trace the solution back in time to find a singularity.
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   by oelequud 11y ago

   No. Try solving the Friedmann equations for a simple case (e.g. spatially flat universe, no cosmological constant, dominated by non-relativistic matter) to see that that's not true.