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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 or Cosmic Crunch? by Transcendent · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Big Bang or Cosmic Crunch?

    Actually you can have both. If all matter crunches back together again, why couldn't it explode out in another Big Bang??

  2. we have come a far way since Copernicus, etc. by littlerubberfeet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Anyone remember a flat earth that was the center of the universe and the planets went in circles? what a wonderfully far way science has come. Kepler.....then Einstein. Good for the progress of science.

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  3. Eggheads... by Raskolnk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...expanded rapidly, in a phenomenon astronomers call inflation

    Damn, them astronomers sure is smart.

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