James P. Hogan - OUT OF TIME by James P. Hogan

Author:James P. Hogan
Language: eng
Format: mobi

tional universe?" Kopeksky asked as the cab moved off.

"You don't forget much," Erringer said. He made it a compliment.

"Aw, in this job you're pestering people all the time with questions," Kopeksky replied. "It doesn't help make friends if you have to keep asking them over again."

"What got you into this line of work?"

"I never could stay away from trouble. So I fig¬ured that if I was going to be around it anyway, I might as well get paid for it."

Erringer nodded. "That makes sense, I guess."

They edged out onto Ninth and were almost hit by a Toyota van running the red light. "So what are these filaments?" Kopeksky asked again.

"Oh ... basically we're pretty certain now that what people have been told for years about the Big Bang origin of the universe is all wrong. It never hap¬pened. There isn't enough mass for gravity to have formed galaxies in the fifteen billion years since the universe is supposed to have formed, and there are larger-scale structures out there that go back way, way further than that. My line of work involves compres¬sion of an initially diffuse, primordial plasma medium into extended filaments by electromagnetic forces, which are trillions of times stronger than gravity. Grav¬itational collapse only came later,"

"Oh," Kopeksky said.

"It's basically an optimistic view, because it leads to a picture of an evolving universe, not one that's de¬generating to a heat death. In fact, just the opposite."

"You mean it's winding up, not running down?" Kopeksky said. Despite the technicalities, he'd heard

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