On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:20:53 -0700, Uncle Al
wrote:

p6 wrote:

What's more likely. A Big Bang where everything starts from
a singularity or M-theory Big Splat (ekpyrotic scenerio)
where two higher dimensional colliding branes produced
the matter and energy in our universe??
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The Big Bang is testable and passes empirical falsification.

The colliding branes theory is a valid scientific theory for the same
reasons. Both theories predict a universe very similar to what we now
observe, but there are subtle differences.

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