This game is played by two people, using small rackets, called battledores, made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed around the top.
An alternative model which once enjoyed equal status with the big bang is the steady state theory, first proposed in 1948 by Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle. This model, too, assumes that the universe is expanding, but proposes that it has no beginning or end in space and time.
The Hydrogen (or thermonuclear) bomb was the brainchild of Dr Edward Teller, based on theories for a 'Super' bomb first advanced by Dr Enrico Fermi. Teller continued to do research and development on the H-Bomb in the face of opposition by the leaders of the Manhattan Project, Dr Robert Oppenheimer and Dr Hans Bethe.