[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2002.01 - 01.01 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2002.01#5253 07-Jan-2002 [ Your Message ] Ba-Da Bang, NYTimes Excerpt: In one of the great paradoxes of this controversial life, Hoyle is most widely remembered as the coiner of the phrase ''Big Bang,'' a term he invented to disparage a theory he couldn't abide. He resisted the idea that everything was born of nothing in an immense eruption 12 billion years ago. Instead, along with Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold, he championed the steady-state universe, an eternally expanding cosmos where new galaxies constantly form in the cracks between older, spreading ones. Ba-Da Bang, Richard Powers, NY Times, 01/12/30 You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=5253