USA, April 26, 2002: Two scientists from the USA and UK, Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok, have put forward a new model to explain how the cosmos is and where it might be going. They say it is necessary to take account of startling new discoveries — in particular, the observation that everything in the universe is moving apart at an accelerating rate. They propose the idea that the cosmos goes through an endless cycle — of Big Bang, expansion and stagnation — which is driven by an as yet unexplained “dark energy.” They have put forward their views in the journal Science. What they are proposing in this new picture is that the Big Bang is not a beginning of time but really just the latest in an infinite series of cycles — exactly what Hindus have been saying for the last several thousand years.
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