Reply #20: article re the "alternative theory" [View All]

[stranger81]

if you're interested in the subject, see Michio Kaku's latest book for more.

From the Australian (last month):

"Instead, Turok says the Big Bang was not a unique event at all. In fact, it was likely to have been one of many, perhaps millions of, Big Bangs.

A small but growing band of other researchers, including Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein professor of science at Princeton University, in New Jersey, support the idea.

If Turok and his supporters are right, the implications are daunting. The life's work of many scientists, and thousands of research papers, would be redundant. No wonder they are fighting back. It would also mean that time, matter and energy have always existed - and always will."

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"Under his and Steinhardt's theory, the Big Bang was not the beginning of history but simply an event within it, caused by the collision of our universe with another one existing in another dimension.

Turok and Steinhardt suggest that such events may happen every trillion years in a kind of cycle. If they are right, then time has always existed and so has the universe. What's more, they always will exist, and so there is no need for inflation or for a creation event - or perhaps even a creator. Pope Pius would be furious. Many of Turok's fellow physicists already are."


http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20192903-2703,00.html