I think the book by that name should be mandatory reading for everybody with a degree in any kind of Scientific Discipline. It is a peculiarity of the human mind that says everything began, has a period of time, and then dies/disappears. It is beyond the human scope to be able to visualize something other than God with No beginning and No end. The man who coined the Term "the Big Bang", Sir Fred Hoyle, Royal Astronomer, used the term in a lecture as a form of contempt, and still it caught on because (I believe) the words were "catchy".

The latest Cosmological thing I hear of is "String Theory" and that is something of a poseur, if you can imagine it; there is not one shred of proof that any such thing even exists; it has never been used to explain ANY scientific problem/riddle; in fact the greatest mystery of the age is that the Asian Author came up with such an idea in the first place. Usually, understand I say usually, these things do have a purpose and can be fit to at least ONE ( 1) valid point of something other than conjecture but in this case there is none. This takes us back to the Middle Ages when one of the great feats of Physical proof was a dissertation on, "How many Angels can dance on the head of a Pin?"
That is substantially what is being argued here.

I won't go into the RAMIFICATIONS of Dark Matter at this time nor have I been so crass as to mention Background Radiation as a proof of anything. If I get onto these subjects
in any detail I would probably make you cry (or maybe myself) and that would be cruel, on my part. Maybe another time when I have more time.
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