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Big Bang or Cosmic Crunch?

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 25, 2002 @02:42PM 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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Thanks for the info by edwilli · 2002-04-26 02:00 · Score: 0, Troll

the universe never began and will never end

Thanks for the recap of the 1st law of thermodynamics, nice to hear it's still with us.