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Letter: Steady-state libraries

Published 13 March 1999

From David Piggins, University of Wales

In
Feedback (20 February),
you mention an inscription on a library wall which reads: “This plaque
was preserved from the previous library which occupied this site.”

The problem resulting from such a statement puts one in mind of the
difficulties facing the big bang theory, where the Universe is thought of as
evolving from a singularity without, it seems, a past.

Perhaps the Universe is only a semantic delusion.

Bangor, Gwynedd

Issue no. 2177 published 13 March 1999

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