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Originally Posted by chtulu
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New studies are now being worked on that are suggesting that there was no big bang. Some of them sound legit, but there are a couple (one that theorizes that the universe expands, collapses and the re-expands like a cycle) that are far out there.
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The announcer/show organizer didn't really capture what the scientists think. The whole big bang idea doesn't propose that collapse and subsequent secondary expansion cannot happen. In fact it is a quite logical extension of the theory. The big bang merely says that there was a maximum explosive mass divergence at some point in time, not that something comes from nothing. That's a common misconception. I think a cool theory that some people have suggested is multiple big bangs happening. However a single big bang?
I just thought of this... if we ever see the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation change significantly... like go up/down and then equilibrate... that might be definite proof that there are multiple universes/big bangs and we have "met up" and the CMB from our universes are mixing like particles in a box (basic stat mech!).
I once sat through a colloquium about the first 10^-34 seconds of the universe (inflation theory)... that is sorta new.
I like the direction this thread is turning.