Book -THE EVOLUTION OF A CREATIONIST

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The Big Bang is the belief that the universe and all it contains is the result of matter, so dense that the matter was invisible, suddenly exploding in a mega-explosion labelled by evolutionary scientists as the Big Bang.

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This has it all wrong. First, matter condensed from energy after the start of expansion. Second, there was no explosion. Rather, it was an expansion of space/time. The "Big Bang" was originally a derisive term coined by an opponent of the theory, and somehow the name stuck. There was no "explosion" nor a "big bang". One of the few times that physicists have displayed a sense of humor.

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Have you looked at the name of the different particles? There is a lot of whismy in physics. Not all of it accessible to someone not "in the know".

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Hehe, I thought about including the name of quarks as another example. It's funny that you mention them as well. For those who are wondering, quarks have "flavors" which are named: up, down, top, bottom, charm, and strange. I believe there may be other theoretical particles with even stranger names, but I can't remember them now. Anyway, back to the topic.

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One of the very early papers on the Big Bang was written in the 1940's by Richard(?) Alpher and Hans Bethe. Before they submitted it, though, they got George Gamow to sign on as a coauthor. That way, the paper was "Alpher, Bethe, Gamow." They intended this to be compared with the start of the Hebrew alphabet (and the start of everything?) - "aleph, beth, gimel..."

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Very interesting, I didn't know that. It is also close the the Greek alphabet of 'alpha, beta, gamma'.