Hi Jack, 
 
 On 12 May 98 you wrote to me and said:
 
 JS> The entire big bang theory is based on the fact that the universe is
 JS> expanding. Therefore, they simply "play the tape backwards," so to
 JS> speak, resulting in a "speck" that allegedly contains all the material
 JS> in the universe to come.
There's more to it than `simply' playing the tape backwards. There's a vast 
amount of maths and physics that has to corroborate the theory. So far most 
of it does. There are stil some stumbling blocks. There have been 
insurmountable difficulties with the theories that later observations 
overcame. The main difficulty at the moment is the `missing mass'.
_patrick_                 (email: patrick.ford@amiga.gen.nz) 
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