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What If the Universe Didn’t Start With the Big Bang?

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More than likely it didn’t. So then what? Is the universe cyclic, with no known beginning? Of course, this is the kind of model Roger Penrose proposed in Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe (2010). You can read more about Penrose’s conformal cyclic cosmology theory at Wikipedia. What If the Universe … Read more

Do We Live in a Fluid Universe?

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If we conceive of the universe as a kind of fluid, the physics of the cosmos makes a lot more sense (at least in my limited understanding). This cool article from Quanta Magazine offers a fluid model of the cosmos. Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe By: Natalie Wolchover February 12, 2014A new … Read more