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not! And you still haven't explained HOW the mattercomes into existence!It's merely some clever reasoning to get aroundthe obvious contradiction of the First Law ofThermodynamics.And of course, the Steady State idea is buttingit's head against the Second Law of Thermodynamicswhich says the universe tends TO RUNDOWN.It doesn't "build up" as is implied in continuouscreation of matter.Just who maintains the universe in a "steadystate" and how? This, of course, isn't explained.If the universe was INFINITELY old, it would havelong ago "run down!" But since it hasn't "rundown," the steady state theory would make theuniverse a giant perpetual motion machine.Now, no one could get a patent for a perpetualmotion machine. It's been proven THOUSANDS oftimes that such is impossible - bearing out thevalidity of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.Change in TheoryUnder mounting observational pressure, FredHoyle announced in late 1965 and early 1966 thathe no longer believed in the cosmology he hadpromulgated. But he didn't give it up entirely.In its place he espoused his "radical departurehypothesis." Hoyle retained the idea of continuouscreation but allowed himself to have deviationsfrom a steady state situation in "local" areas of theuniverse.And since, he says, we cannot see out beyondthis "local" bubble, he is conveniently protectedfrom "observational" disproval of his new hypothesis.But even given a steady state universe (whichwe've proven to be impossible) WHERE did theORIGINAL matter come from; HOW is it sustainedwhen observation shows physical things degenerate;WHY does it operate on lawful principles?Proponents of the steady state theory donot know. They claim that it doesn't make anydifference. But saying so doesn't make the problemgo away.It's quite clear this theory doesn't - andCANNOT - answer the basic questions of why theuniverse is as it is.But now we turn our attention to the secondtheory group.The First "Big Bang" TheoryOne of the earlier theories was put forth by theBelgian scientist, Abbe Lemaitre in 1931. He proposedthat the universe originated from a singlestupendous primeval "atom" which exploded.The biggest problem of all, as one author putit, was :"The really big question is, of course: HOWcould a huge atom like this form, and WHERE didit come from?" (The Mystery of the ExpandingUniverse, William Bonner, page 115.)Most astronomers have admitted his theoryhas only historical value.The Gamow TheoryThe more prominent "Big Bang" theory is theone put forth by George Gamow and others.In this theory, Gamow speculated a hugeprimordial cloud contained a "soup" of all thefundamental particles within an atom.At a sudden moment, there was a huge explosionthat formed - within minutes - by a chainreaction all the elements of the universe.