Why the “Cyclic Universe” is Impossible

PSI Blog 20251110 Why the “Cyclic Universe” is Impossible

Another cosmogonical reform bites the dust! 

As in baseball, all events in the universe occur via collisions. Hypotheses that claim events can occur without collisions are false. Credit: Chris Chow in Unsplash.com.

 

From time to time I read about theories that use the erroneous universal expansion interpretation in fancy new ways. One involves the hypothesis that the universe undergoes alternating expansions and contractions. This is similar to the oxymoronic multiverse hypothesis that also saves the universal expansion interpretation—but for multiple “universes.” One of those even calculated a nearly infinite number of universes. That got published by the American Physical Society, a mainstream outfit I belong to. Egads!

 

Recycling does occur, as I pointed out here for small portions of the Infinite Universe. Probably that is where the cycling idea comes from. However, in each of those instances the cycling occurs just as you do when you recycle newspaper or glass bottle. You begin with an existing bottle, apply heat to melt it down, and then poor the melt into the form for a new bottle.

 

The universe recyclers don’t do it that way, but ever since 1905 magic is allowed when dealing with the universe. Some introduce the moribund gravitational attraction theory to get the various parts of the universe to be “attracted” to each other. That’s not possible, but if it was, the recyclers then are faced with the same problem faced by the Big Bang Theorists: What will cause that crunched universe then to expand all by itself?

 

The truth is that none of that stuff can possibly happen because everything in the Infinite Universe occurs via collisions, not by magic. Thinking the Big Bang universe could expand by itself is like hoping to get a home run without a bat. Newton's Second Law of Motion describes those collisions in which object A collides with object B. Object A transfers its motion to object B, slowing down in the process, while object B speeds up. In Infinite Universe Theory I call that the Second Assumption of Science, causality (All effects have an infinite number of material causes). The process is mentioned further in the Fourth Assumption of Science, inseparability (Just as there is no motion without matter, so there is no matter without motion).

 

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