Cyclic model

Pretty sure big bounce isn't falsifiable but it's nice to think about I guess? I don't know of any experiments we could even do to gather evidence for or against it.

>>8730732
It might be comforting, but like most things in LQC, it's pretty much untestable.

I think the theory died with the discovery our universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, not slowing down

>>8730753
And? What tells us it won't slow down in the future?

>>8730732
Roger Penrose is a cuck

>>8730766
The math.

>>8730766
What could possibly have enough energy to collapse the entire universe?
hint: it's not gravity

>>8730784
god

>>8730766
i mean.. if you think about what the theory suggests, the universe is expanding because it collapsed in on itself due to gravity, and then began expanding because of the bodies' inertia. Under the assumption that gravity is the causal factor of a cyclic universe, the expansion would never accelerate. It would always be a decelerating expansion, and the universe would reach a smaller maximum size each cycle.