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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
They have pretty much prooved that the universe is accellerating and will never slow down and thus that theory is dead in the water.
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I wouldn't phrase it that way. If it's shown that we live in a closed Universe, then it could be ascertained that we're accelerating toward our own crunch. In analogy, think of each of the galaxies as droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere... comprising clouds... all rushing outward from the same point... doomed to encircle the globe forever... that's, roughly, one of the suggested models of our universe.
And I'm not entirely sure that it's been proven that we're never to slow down - only generally accepted (due to the overwhelming evidence of red shift, etc) that we are currently in a state of acceleration... which contradicts what some thought beforehand.
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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
As for big bang from what I remember (I live on these types of shows) is that it only took 1 more electron than proton to get it all going. That and when you hear static on an empty tv station etc part of that static is the sound of the big bang itself.
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The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.
Probably the most supportive piece of evidence that there was some sort of "Big Bang."