The Horrendous Space Kablooie is an alternate term for the Big Bang, coined by Bill Watterson in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Jump to: navigation, search According to the Big Bang theory, the universe originated in an extremely dense and hot state (bottom). ... Jump to: navigation, search William B. Bill Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Jump to: navigation, search Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. ...

In one strip, Calvin says to Hobbes, "I've been reading about the beginning of the universe. They call it 'The Big Bang.' Isn't it weird how scientists can imagine all the matter of the universe exploding out of a dot smaller than the head of a pin, but they can't come up with a more evocative name for it than 'the Big Bang'? That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder." Jump to: navigation, search The deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. ... This article is about the profession. ... Matter is commonly referred to as the substance of which physical objects are composed. ... // What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Jump to: navigation, search Empiricism (greek εμπειρισμός, from empirical, latin experientia - the experience), is the philosophical doctrine that all human knowledge comes at first from senses and experience. ...

Hobbes asks, "What would you call the creation of the universe?"

Calvin replies, "The Horrendous Space Kablooie!"

This term enjoyed a brief popularity in the scientific community and was widely used in informal communications (often abbreviated to "the HSK"). The scientific community consists of the interactions and relationships of scientists. ...

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• Occurrence of 'Horrendous Space Kablooie' on sci.physics