Paul Steinhardt PhD Tries Filling the Gap in Einstein’s Theory
Physicist Paul Steinhardt attempts to fill the gap created by Einstein’s theory leaving unanswered how the Universe came into existence. Is the Universe static, unchanging and eternal, did it start with a Big Bang, or does it bounce.
In fact Dr. Paul Steinhardt favors and supports the idea that the Universe goes through an eternal cycle of bouncing. A bouncing Universe answers why we see a smooth Universe instead of an unsmooth Universe. With a bouncing Universe we do not need inflation to make a smooth Universe because the big crunch will smooth out the Universe before it Big Bangs again or bounces again.
A bouncing Universe doesn’t require a Multiverse. And it also predicts that the expansion we see now must only be a phase that will resolve somehow and stop.
A bouncing Universe offers many options to fill the Big Gap in Einstein’s Theory.
Key Takeaways:
- A bouncing Universe answers many unanswered questions on how the Universe works.
- Inflation is not needed in a bouncing Universe, the Big Crunch smooths out the Universe making it come out smooth after the bounce.
- The bouncing Universe cancels out the need for a Multiverse too.
- There are experiments that can verify one way or the other whether or not we are dealing with a bouncing Universe.
“The interesting situation at present is that if you take the data as it stands today and the simplest theory of the Higgs called the standard model at the moment it points to the idea that our vacuum is metastable or that the vacuum is metastable which is consistent with the idea of a bouncing Universe and our necessary requirement and prediction of this idea (of a bouncing Universe).”
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