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Atsrophysicists offer alternative to Big Bang . . . a Big Crunch
2002
Overview
The notion of a cyclical cosmos is not entirely new. Hindu philosophers centuries ago described a universe that went through cycles of birth, death and rebirth every 8.62 billion years, [Paul Steinhardt] said. The time scale was a bit different than that proposed by the modern scientists, and Steinhardt and [Neil Turok] are also proposing some bizarre physics involving a fifth dimension to make their scenario work. Steinhardt and Turok revived the notion of a fiery end, however, by developing a new theory of the origin of the universe. This new picture, announced last April by Steinhardt and University of Pennsylvania physicist Burt Ovrut, does away with one of the more difficult notions inherent in the Big theory: that everything in the observable universe started out packed into a space the size of a pinpoint. At some point, Steinhardt said, the lack of density in our universe will start it all moving toward that other parallel universe again--the one that helped get it all started. Eventually our universe will collide with it, with the impact destroying all remaining matter in our universe and kicking off a whole new cycle.
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