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Originally posted by dehammer:
nice links, very informative.

unfortunately, the name big bang suggest explosives which means in the great mass of those unlearned, that there was some for of explosived needed. ignorance may be bliss (for some) but it can be cured.
As I recall, the term "big bang" was coined by someone who was ridiculing the theory. It just stuck.

There are lots of unfortunately named things in science, and elsewhere. I know biologists wish they'd never coined the term "mitochondrial Eve," for instance.

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