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I'm not convinced. Months from now we'll get data from some other experiment that will call the entire model into question and require a refactoring. Then there will be a push by steady-state theorists for a bit, then they'll glue the big bang back together with more popsicle sticks and bubblegum until the next conflicting empirical result and the whole process will repeat itself.
Not that I understand this stuff either, but that's just my general impression from the outside.
BTW, speaking of the steady-staters how annoying it must have been to be one during that whole NASA censorship deal -- the guy wants the word "theory" placed in front of all occurances of "big bang" and you'd be sitting there saying "yeah that would be helpful" on the one hand and "this guy's a religious nut" on the other hand. Oh the ambivalence.
Fascinating field, though.
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