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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 [log in to unmask] > > Oddly enough, the technology might not be insurmountable, though I think not > in any of our lifetimes. It's eerie that if we only had dental x-rays of > Christ, then it <would> be possible to check out that skeleton. It's more > eerie that the sound waves set off by the big bang (if there was one) are > supposed to be still traveling through the universe, and therefore to be at > least theoretically recoverable or recordable. If sounds from the past don't > disappear, and a way could be found to access them, one might anticipate > future CDROMs of the Sermon on the Mount (if it was an historical event). > > Sounds bizarre. But who would have believed what computers can do if we > hadn't seen it? And here we are today collecting DNA from dinosaur bones. > Will wonders never cease? > > pat sloane > > > > > I hate to be nit-picky, but there are no "sound-waves" from the Big Bang. Sound waves require a medium (i.e. air) to travel through and as there is no air in outer space... Anyway, what we do have is the background radiation from the BB and that can and has been detected/measured. MFH %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%