Subj : The universe To : Jim Munden From : Joshua Lee Date : Sun Dec 24 2000 11:25 am -=> Jim Munden wrote to Bob Eyer <=- JM> Hello! May I contribute a few cents from my meager knowledge bank? :-) You're welcome to do so, we sure could use the traffic! JM> This is certainly not an original thought, but what if the "Big JM> Bang" and the current expansion are but phases in an ongoing JM> oscillation of energy converting to matter, and vice versa? That is, This is an interesting cosmological theory, the main problem with it of course is that currently we don't seem to be able to find enough matter in the universe, even including "dark matter", to cause a collapse. Due to this observation many cosmologists don't think that we live in an oscillatory universe. JBL .... What is mind? No matter! What is matter? Never mind! ___ MultiMail/Win32 v0.37 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Juxtaposition BBS, Telnet:juxtaposition.dynip.com (1:167/133) .