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The oscillatory universe theory is a hypothesis credited to Richard Tolman who saw it as a possible outcome of the Big Bang.
I believe that you are referring to the "Big Crunch" — the idea that the universe is expanding now but later it will stop, turn around, and collapse again to a point (the "crunch"). Then presumably this will bring about ...
The day that someone comes up with a bulletproof value for the Hubble constant and an unambiguous proof that the speed of light has always been 3x10^8m/s you can ask me that again.
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I can't find any single person that this is accredited to, although Martin Bojowald, is the first name mentioned in the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce
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This theory suggests the universe has always existed and goes through periods of expansion and contraction. We are merely the lucky recipients of life via evolution during one such period of expansion. The concept of an oscillating universe...
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They both have expansion in common. However, if there is enough matter in the universe the expansion will slow, stop and reverse. Just like rockets needing to reach escape velocity to leave the earth's gravity, right? So when the univers...
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Pros: It seems to be aesthetically more pleasing than heat death. And it allows astronomers to temporarily escape the question of what caused it all. Saying there was an earlier iteration of the universe before the Big Bang, does NOT answer...
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Oscillating Universe Theory, basically, states that the Universe expands and contracts (space) over a long period of time much like a rubber band that was pulled and released over and over again by some force or group of forces. Think of it...
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How can it affect us spirtually. The odds we'll return at the next bang are not very good. the odds at any bang that life will happen are not very good. The period of time between bang and crunch exceeds our lifetime many millions over time...
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According to the so-called oscillation theory, neutrinos can change from one type to another as they travel through space; in order to make these transformations, neutrinos have to have a tiny amount of mass and not be massless, as was orig...
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