[pianomikey]

there are also beliefs (BELIEFS!) that the "Big Bang" is a cycle: that is, the universe expands out, but since space is slightly negatively curved, it continues contracting into a "big crunch" as Hawking likes to call it. When it reaches it's smallest point it simply folds over itself and starts expanding again in the "big bang" fashion you're familiar with.

and that's just one of their crackpot theories.

[russianteen]

heh that big crunch theory makes me hungry