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What if the big-bang theory is wrong? Recently, Princeton University
physicist Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok at Cambridge introduced the
``cyclic theory" of the early universe. In this picture, space and time
exist forever. The big bang is not the beginning of time. Rather, it is a
bridge to a pre-existing contracting era. Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert
Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University, a member of the
faculty in both the Department of Physics and in the Department of
Astrophysical Sciences. He received his B.S. in Physics at Caltech in 1974;
his M.A. in Physics in 1975 and Ph.D. in Physics in 1978 at Harvard
University. He is a Fellow in the American Physical Society and a member of
the National Academy of Sciences.
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Dr. Paul Steinhardt
What if the big-bang theory is wrong? Recently, Princeton University
physicist Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok at Cambridge introduced the
``cyclic theory" of the early universe. In this picture, space and time
exist forever. The big bang is not the...
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