The professor of physics and director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science co-authored a paper on this topic, A Cyclic Model of the Universe, with Neil Turok.

The universe undergoes an endless series of big bangs and cosmic crunches separated by periods of expansion and contraction, according to the latest cosmological theory. Paul Steinhardt of Princeton ...

The professor of physics and director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science co-authored a paper on this topic, A Cyclic Model of the Universe, with Neil Turok. The cyclic model of the ...

Cyclic universe The idea of a cyclic universe, first proposed in 2002 by Steinhardt and Turok, is an alternative to anthropic selection.

Steinhard and Turok’s new theory assumes we live in a cyclic universe, where each cycle from Big Bang to big crunch takes about a trillion years. It postulates the existence of a long sequence of ...

In Steinhardt and Turok's cyclic model of the Universe, it expands and contracts repeatedly over timescales that make the 13.7 billion years that have passed since the Big Bang seem a mere blink.

Explore the importance of serious science journalism and its role in understanding the cyclic universe ideas by Turok and Steinhardt.

The idea of a cyclic universe, first proposed in 2002 by Steinhardt and Turok, is an alternative to anthropic selection. "The [value of lambda] is one of the prime mysteries of physics ...

The instant the universe came to be, the so-called “big-bang,” has attracted competing theories. The victor, says Turok, will be revealed within the next 20 years.

A cyclic universe, which bounces through a series of big bangs and “big crunches”, could solve the puzzle of our cosmological constant, physicists suggest.