Re: Anisotropic Universe

Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:43:33 -0700 (PDT)

Damien Broderick writes:
>Lerner's revised edition of THE BIG BANG NEVER HAPPENED has a post-COBE
>intro, which makes what looks to me like a good case for the standard
>Smootoid interpretation being blatant codswallop. I don't have the book
>handy, but there's some key point about scaling parameters that shocked me
>greatly. I've never seen his criticism answered by any of the Bang
>hotshots.

I haven't read this book, and it doesn't seem to be available now at
Pasadena bookstores and libraries. But I did find a critique at:

http://www.astro.ucla/~wright/lerner_errors.html

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/