[Reily]

I think the steady state model predates the big bang model.

[LouieFisk]

“I think the steady state model predates the big bang model.”
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Yup, it does. For a long time it was thought that things were pretty much they way they’d always been cosmos-wise. Then the Big Bang came along and blew the old notion up.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

Yes, he outlines some of the history of the ideas here:

https://theconversation.com/bizarre-dark-fluid-with-negative-mass-could-dominate-the-universe-what-my-research-suggests-107922