From: Chris Hillman <hillman@math.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: accelerating universal expansion
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 02:17:42 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.physics.research
Summary: [missing]

On 3 Feb 2000, Colin Hewitt wrote:

> May I request valid comments on the following idea which may not be original
> but I have no way of knowing that. The idea came to me while watching a
> television programme on gravity presented by channel 4 in the U.K. It goes
> thus.
> 
> Guessing  that at the instant of the "Big Bang" there was nothing to impede
> the progress of matter away from the point of origin, 
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm afraid you've already gone off the rails.  See the excellent
cosmology tutorial by Ned Wright at

 http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_01.htm

Chris Hillman

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