Cosmology: Procreation in Space

How was the universe created? All at once, and billions of years ago, says the "big bang" faction of cosmologists, and not a single atom has been created since that explosion. "Continual creation" cosmologists take a different tack. They believe that the matter in the universe was created gradually and is still being created, probably as neutrons or hydrogen atoms in the lonely spaces between the galaxies. Not quite satisfied with either theory, Professor William H. McCrea of the University of London's Royal Holloway College now offers an improvement on continual creation. In the Monthly Notices of the Royal...

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