Dear Fellow Astro People, While the Big Bang is today’s standard cosmology, thescience is by no means settled. New theories, some as strange as black holesthemselves, are on the table. In this first part of a series of blogs, the BigBang is examined as well as a proposal that was just publicized late last year. Even stranger ideas will be discussed in a following blog. Meanwhile, here’s the first: http://the-nightly-news.com/blog/blog-46-getting-a-bang-out-of-cosmology Also, please tell your friends -- and anyone else with enoughbrains to appreciate good astronomy writing – that they can sign up for afree email subscription to the blog by going to the home page, which is here: Home. Thanks, Joe