Joe, thats a perfect example of what makes this site so good. The vision you conjured up of violas springing into existence in mid air all over the place at every appropriate declamation made my day. Perhaps there is life in the steady state theory after all - Hoyle et al just need to get enough Frenchmen together in one place (say 10 to power 5 per cubic parsec) all saying "viola" at once and they all become repulsive (one of Bills' tongue in cheek emoticons). Sorry but I couldn't resist having a dig.

Pete M