[PatrickHenry]

Cosmology bump.

[longshadow]

I'm riding Guth's coattails until such time as the ekpyrotiacs come up with results of some experiments that coincide with the ekpyrotic model's predictions but conflict with the BB/Inflationary Model's predictions.

Until then, it is all a conjecture.

And even if it turns out to be correct, I still have questions regarding there being any causal connection between the "current" Universe and the n^th-1 Universe, and so on..... If that is the case, whatever went on in the "preverses" has no effect on our current Universe, which is equivalent to there being no "preverses" (from the point of view of the present Universe).

And none of this changes the pile of Turtle turds that are piling up down there.