Return of the Cosmic Crash!
Think back to those thrilling school days when you were taught that there were three main beliefs about the universe in the secular science industry. The most popular is the heavily-Frankensteined Big Bang, which violates scientific laws. Another unscientific idea was the steady-state universe that continually replenished itself.
The cyclic or oscillating model presents the idea that the universe goes way out, slows down, then collapses in on itself, setting up another Big Bang. It keeps on a-trucking back and forth. Now a "new" idea has been proposed using the also-unscientific oscillating model.
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According to an article in Live Science, the “oscillating universe” might be coming back in vogue. A paper in PNAS by Paul Steinhardt, Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University in New Jersey, and two of his colleagues, Cosmin Andrei and Anna Ijjas, have announced that, in contrast to the previous view, the expansion of the universe will soon cease. By ‘soon’ they mean “remarkably quickly” in astronomical terms, which is in “the next 65 million years — then, within 100 million years, the universe could stop expanding altogether, and instead it could enter an era of slow contraction that ends billions of years from now with the death — or perhaps the rebirth — of time and space.”
To expand your knowledge, finish reading "Cosmologists Reverse Their Dogmas." You may also like, "The Universe Should Not Even Exist — Wait, What?" which helps demonstrate the disparity on these things in the secular science industry.