Author: Dan Homan
Date: 06:11:29 05/11/01
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On May 10, 2001 at 17:51:59, John Dahlem wrote: >I don't really understand exactly how anything like this could be considered. I >would imagine there is absolutely no way to measure the mass or size of the >universe in any possible way. So getting this away from math and numbers (maybe) >can you tell me what is the basis behind these numbers which I don't understand? > I hear about the Big Bang theory and stuff like that; makes no sense to me how >they decide these things about the universe... Read "The Big Bang", by Joseph Silk ... great book that explains all this stuff. It serves as a good introduction to astronomy as it tries to explain how we can 'know' about the universe. - Dan
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