Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

1 of 94 comments (clear)

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

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

    Calvin: "The Horrendous Space Kablooie!"

    --
    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.