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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Could the big bang be in an infinite repeating cycle?
« on: 16/11/2016 20:17:13 »When speculating about the so-called "Big Crunch", I think it is a mistake to assume that the cosmos is finite to begin with. If instead, the cosmos is infinite and our observed Big Bang is really only a local "White hole" event, then maybe we can start speculating about what the mass limit might be for black holes.
Just consider the possibility that if the cosmos is in fact infinite, other big bangs may be occurring all the time but are too far outside our observational parameter. Maybe the truth is: Our "Big Bang" really isn't all that big when one considers the possibility of an infinite cosmos.
I think you're right. An eternal, infinite "Steady-State" Cosmos, is far more plausible than the currently fashionable "Big-Bang" hypothesis.
The chief weakness of the Big Bang hypothesis seems to be this:
It supposes that at a certain time in the past, 13.7 billion years ago or whatever, ALL the vast spread of matter in the Universe - billions of planets, stars, galaxies - was somehow concentrated into a single microscopically tiny "point".
Doesn't the absurdity of such an idea reveal itself as soon as it's written! I can sort of believe that an individual star could shrink into a "Black Hole" (though such a Black Hole would still have a certain diameter)
But that the entire Universe should once have been a microscopic pin-point - pull the other one!