In the beginning was the Big Bang ... but before that was the Big Bounce!


	In the beginning was the Big Bang ... but before that was the Big Bounce!

countryboylife

7-1-2007 11:27 PM

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7-2-2007 2:08 AM

skwirlinator

Yes!

Loop Quantum Gravity

Yes, that explains it all.
Its about time you puny humans catch up!

7-2-2007 2:09 AM

skwirlinator

Einstein was a skwirl

7-2-2007 2:09 AM

skwirlinator

We know about strange particles!

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Scientists today claim to be one step closer to solving one of the biggest and most baffling questions of them all - what came before the Big Bang? 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=465526&in_page_id=1965"><P>They say that rather than a single Big Bang - in which the whole of time and space was created from nothing during a colossal explosion 13.7 billion years ago - our universe was built on the shattered remains of an older universe. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=465526&in_page_id=1965"><P>Apparently, the previous universe was similar to ours but collapsed in on itself in an event nicknamed the Big Crunch. 
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