Nature 228, 21 - 24 (03 October 1970); doi:10.1038/228021a0

A Philosophy for Big-Bang Cosmology

W. H. MCCREA

Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex

According to recent developments in cosmology we seem bound to find a model universe like the observed universe, almost independently of how we suppose it started. Such ideas, if valid, provide fresh justification for the procedures of current cosmological theory.

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