Oscillatory universe

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The oscillating universe theory is a cosmological model investigated briefly by Albert Einstein in 1930 and critiqued by Richard Tolman in 1934, in which the universe undergoes a series of oscillations, each beginning with a big bang and ending with a big crunch. After the big bang, the universe expands for a while before the gravitational attraction of matter causes it to collapse back in and undergo a bounce.

Also see cyclic model.

[edit] References

  1. R. H. Dicke, P. J. E. Peebles, P. G. Roll and D. T. Wilkinson, "Cosmic Black-Body Radiation," Astrophysical Journal 142 (1965), 414. This important paper discusses the oscillatory universe as one of the main cosmological possibilities.
  2. S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The large-scale structure of space-time (Cambridge, 1973).
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