Exercises to Avoid. While most exercises are safe during early pregnancy, you should avoid certain activities all together. Avoid contact sports such as rugby, tackle football or wrestling during pregnancy. Additionally, stay away from activities with a high fall risk such as downhill skiing and skating.
Fred Hoyle (and others) proposed a Steady State Theory (indeed, it was good ol' Fred who is credited with creating the term 'Big Bang' - ironically, he meant it disparagingly); it pretty much disappeared once serious study of the cosmic (background) (microwave) (radiation) - CMBR, or CMB, or ... - got under way.
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a popular-science book on cosmology (the study of the universe) by British physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for nonspecialist readers with no prior knowledge of scientific theories.