[net.physics] FLASH! BIG BANG

art@hpfcla.UUCP (08/08/85)

(IPNS 8 August)  

This news service has just learned of a new breakthrough in
evolutionary cosmogony.  In an exclusive interview, a Modest
Scientist (Ms), who prefers to remain anonymous, has revealed to
Intoxicated Press correspondents that the Big Bang is now understood 
to be a super dooper nova event in Hyperverse (HV).  Ms. Ms, who
has a Master in Sigh-ence (Ms) says that the new theory is evolutionary
in nature since the cosmological principle (CP) of Big Bang advocates
and the perfect cosmological principle (PCP) of Steady State advocates
have been superceded by the most perfect cosmological principle of
Isms in HV.  Ism is (Ms. Ms, Ms)'s catchy phrase for the HV equivalent of
Being. 

(Ms)**3 asserts that cosmologists in our universe will be aided by this new
knowledge since we now understand that we are a local phenomenon in HV,
CP is subordinated to MPCP and the need to do away with the edges of the
universe disappears.  Thus it is reasonable to straighten out space and
return to Euclidean way of looking at things.  With a giggle that sounded
quite profound, Ms. Ms went on to explain that curvature of space is not
required in HV.  MPCP states that not only are all observers in space equal as
in CP or additionally in time as in PCP but also that when observations are made
simultaneously in past, present, future and across space, they will be
consistent. (Ms)**3 theorizes that Isms probably have only moderate
sense and make all observations with ESP which, of course, spans space 
and time.

When asked how she managed to derive such an elegent theory Ms mused that
if she had seen farther than her peers, it was because she had been looking
across their shoulders towards the heavens while for the most part they had
had their faces stuck in the pillow.

On a personal note, Ms is unmarried but presently has a boy friend and two
puppies and a kitten by a former marriage.  She also enjoys chess and skiing.