sports-tennis-and-a-ball-bouncing-on-a-court-outdoor-during- Type post Author Bruce Gordon Date May 28, 2026 CategoriesCosmologyPhysicsScientific Reasoning Tagged , Abhay Ashtekar, Aron Wall, beginning, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, bounce, conformal cyclic cosmology, cosmic aeons, cosmic inflation, cosmology, cyclic cosmologies, entropy, flatness problem, geodesics, gravity, horizon problem, Kinney-Stein proof, Kinney-Stein result, loop quantum cosmology, Martin Bojowald, mechanism, Mithani-Vilenkin instability, Mithani-Vilenkin instability proof, Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems, quantum effects, quantum singularity theorem, quantum-geometric bounce, Roger Penrose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, singularity theorems, Tolman entropy problem, universe Past-Eternal Loop Quantum Cosmology Gets the Bounce Bruce Gordon May 28, 2026 Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning 15 Oscillating universes have been discussed in philosophy from time immemorial and in mathematical cosmology for over one hundred years. Read More ›
hubble-ngc1266-2-4f-flat-final-crop2 Type post Author Bruce Gordon Date May 26, 2026 CategoriesCosmologyPhysics Tagged , __trending, abductive reasoning, Alexander Vilenkin, Anthony Aguirre, Aron Wall, Audrey Mithani, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, bounce-free cyclic model, causal horizon, conformal cyclic cosmology, conformal frame, cosmic beginning, cosmology, cyclic bounce model, David Klinghoffer, deductive logic, Emma Chapman, entropy, Generalized Second Law, geodesic, Itzhak Bars, Justin Brierley, naturalism, Neil Turok, Paul Steinhardt, Phil Halper, philosophy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Tolman, Roger Penrose, spacetime, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Steven Gratton, The Story of Everything, universe, Wall Street Journal On the BGV Theorem and Eternal Cyclic Cosmology Bruce Gordon May 26, 2026 Cosmology, Physics 22 The beginning of the universe doesn’t need to be singular, so doubts about a singularity don’t need to translate into doubts about a beginning. Read More ›
