[Bloody Sam Roberts]

An interesting idea.

[RightWhale]

The ekpyrotic model is testable. It predicts a gravitational blue-shift. There are some old threads on FR discussing the ekpyrotic model.

[onedoug]

Big names of the field. Reminds me of the ideas of another cosmologist, Andre Linde, with his, "Eternally existing, self-reproducing, inflationary universe."

To reach into the mind of God....

[stlrocket]

Here's an interesting picture.

BIG BANG OR CREATED?

[Lucas1]

Yeah but someone had to cause the big bang to begin with no? Hehe..this is the age old question. Who made God. If there was a big bang who cares...there had to be something before the bang,,,,,right :)

fun fun

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I thought Neil Turok was a Vulcan time traveller from the future??

[PatrickHenry]

Cosmology bump. Here are more links on the same subject:

Universe in 'endless cycle' .
Universe Reborn Endlessly in New Model of the Cosmos.
'Endless universe driven by dark forces'.

[medved]

I claim nobody needs to be Albert Einstein to figure this one out. Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes. How the hell is anything supposed to "big-bang" its way out of that??

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[Ahban]

They forgot to present any evidence.....the article is simply bald assertions.

[gcruse]

 But I was always disturbed by the idea
that there were no competitors around

Occam's Razor without a blade...

[galt-jw]

i thought this was a thread on orgies....sorry...

[Timmy]

I don't understand. I thought we KNEW how the universe formed, and the earth developed, and life spontaneously appeared, and evolved, etc. It's all a FACT. What do they mean, "new" theory? I'm so confused.

[AlGone2001]

The big bang did happen......

God spoke....and BANG...it happened.

[Windy-Dave]

SAME INTENTIONALLY UN-UNANSWERED QUESTION.............WHO CAUSED THE SO CALLED BIG BANG IN THE FIRST PLACE? The CREATOR of The UNIVERSE....... JEHOVA GOD! of course. Any good PENTACOSTAL knows the answer to that one! The world was spoken into existence and will never end. The ALPHA & THE OMEGA JESUS CHRIST has your answer unless you are one of those fist shaking pseudo-intellectual liberals who mock GOD to your total destruction! Try having a mustard seed size piece of FAITH as your basis of intellect. Can you count the stars in Heaven? Jehova has, and he named them as well.

Luke 8:25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him. 2TM 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

Proof beyond measure abounds in the Universe of his creation. Man shall live by Faith not by sight, and all of GOD'S wise children said......AMEN! & AMEN!

[MEGoody]

I always find it amusing that science presumes to know how the universe began, but it has not yet figured out how to cure the common cold or predict the weather accurately. Perhaps it is easier to pretend to know something about something the average guy couldn't know anything about, because one simply cannot pretend to have found the cure for the common cold without being able to back that up with results.

[SunkenCiv]