From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:16:50 -0600, personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk wrote:   
      
   > "David Mitchell"  wrote in message   
   > news:pan.2005.01.23.13.42.37.412557@edenroad.demon.co.uk...   
   >> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:23:47 +0100, Laura wrote:   
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   >> I'm insufficiently knowledgeable to correct you; but have you looked at   
   >> one of the alternatives to the BB: Ekpyrotic theory. While you're   
   >> Googling, look up Lee Smolin, I _love_ his ideas of universe formation   
   >> from Black Holes.   
   >   
   > I've read something of that... that black holes are popping out of existence   
   > periodically, but to where?   
   > what happens to that mass?  does it form a new   
   > universe in another dimension?  are we in turn the result of a black hole   
   > that popped into creating our universe?   
      
   That's the theory.  It's very neat, if you also postulate that each   
   "child" universe can differ from the "parent" one in the value of its   
   fundamental physical constants, then you can arrive at an evolutionary   
   process which favours pretty much the kind of universe we're in now; which   
   neatly explains the fact that we are!   
      
   > BHs notwithstanding, I am personally convinced that quasars and black holes   
   > are equal opposites of each other:  for every quasar at the edge of the   
   > universe, there is a BH somewhere near the center of the universe that   
   > corresponds to it.   
      
   No, as Laura pointed out, quasars _are_ black holes.   
      
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