What Was Before Then?

The universe we live in has a beginning, the Big Bang, no definite end since we cannot yet comprehend its whole structure, and nothing, not even time for that mater, exists outside of it. The concept of a cyclic universe has been mostly created to help physicists in their effort to understand... [ read more >> ]

Inflation theory predicts a cyclic universe

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Inflation theory predicts a cyclic universe