>>> Keith Knapp on Time and Again 
 KK> Good point.  I guess what I was trying to say was that if the early
 KK> universe turns out to be extremely different from the present one,
 KK> that would support the BB model.
Yes, the present universe is present and accounted for. -)  The extremely 
early universe is theoretical.  We can't even say for sure when.
 KK> As for me personally, if I'd had to use one of Galileo's extremely
 KK> primitive telescopes, I wouldn't have discovered _anything_!
Indeed, you'd be pre-empted by Galileo.
 
 RT> KK> Every time we build a better telescope, we point it up there and it
 RT> KK> shows us some damned thing that nobody predicted.
 KK> Yeah, the next ten years are going to be fascinating.
Physically, chemically, astronomically fascinating.  But let's face it, the 
universe is now and forever shall be fascinating.  Have you noticed that 
there is no such thing as 'the known universe', it's just too fascinating to 
be know.  I'd wager that most of it's unknown.  So here's to the unknown 
universe wherever and whenever that may be.  Fascinating, how little we know 
about the unknown universe, merely that it an unknown.
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