Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...183.8810f&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 183rd AAS Meeting, #88.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.1430
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
In the August 1993 Sky & Telescope one of us (T. F.) argued that the term "Big Bang" is misleading, trivializing, and inappropriately bellicose to describe the event that gave rise to the physical universe as depicted by the standard cosmological model. We issued a challenge to all interested persons to try to come up with a better name. Although we offered no prize, the challenge aroused widespread interest: over a period of three months some 13,000 entries were submitted from 41 countries. Some came from professional astronomers, but most came from nonscientists -- from kindergartners and octogenarians, prison inmates and physicians, and many others. This outpouring of creative, pedestrian, religious, ingenious, confused, profound, and insightful suggestions offers an unprecedented look at laypeoples' thinking about the origin of the universe. Some of the suggested new names for the theory are highly original and appropriate.
Beatty Kelly J.
Dinsmoor D. T.
Downs Hugh
Ferris Timothy
Sagan Carl
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