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Big Bang or Cosmic Crunch?

Posted by timothy on from the with-nougat-caramel-and-turkish-delight dept.

BrianGa writes: "Yahoo news is reporting on Princeton University physicist Paul Steinhardt suggesting that the universe never began and will never end, driven forever to expand in a series of monster explosions and contract every eon or so in a cosmic crunch. This is directly contradictory to the big-bang theory. The model of the universe envisioned by Steinhardt sees the big bang as merely a turning point on an infinite road."

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  1. big bang? by syrinx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hobbes: "Well what would *you* call the creation of the universe?"

    Calvin: "The Horrendous Space Kablooie!"

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    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
  2. vice versa universe? by adporter · · Score: 2, Funny

    We are the dust of long dead stars.±

    Excerpts from interview of Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of England by Claudia Dreifus, New York Times, April 26, 1998

    but it appears Stars are the dust of long, long dead us?