alternate big bang theories

[billy]

yes but you're splitting infinities aren't you

we can assume assume an infinite number is one that takes too long to write down or say so we represent it by ∞ of the word infinite/infinity
so i'm sure you or anyone else would take it as a great big number

the hypothesis i put up isn't the big crunch theory per say

I know, but the cyclic theory depends on a crunch. If the universe keeps expanding forever, obviously the cyclic theory is out. The last I heard, new data indicated an accelerating expansion that ruled out recollapse. No collapse, no cycle. But perhaps it's not as certain as I thought.

why would the cyclic theory be out. if the universe stretched in to patches that couldn't be connected. and the resulting universe did the the same it would be cyclic chaos. each patch snapping back and creating a big bang.

you can add or subtract from an infinite number and it will always be an infinite number

In physical cosmology, the Big Crunch is one possible scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the metric expansion of space eventually reverses and the universe recollapses, ultimately ending as a black hole singularity.

Right -- not another universe but a singularity.

now some are saying a black hole that doesn't create a singularity has a universe in its stead