Scientists make surprising claim about origin of the universe!

Was the Big Bang more of a Big Bounce?

A new theory has scientists rethinking the Big Bang. Could the Big Bang have been more of a "Big Bounce?"

LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - Scientists generally agree the universe expanded rapidly within the first moments of creation. The theory, which would be known as the Big Bang, was first proposed by Jesuit priest, Fr. Georges Lemaitre.

Fr. Lemaitre recognized that if the universe was expanding, then it must have a beginning. That beginning would probably be violent and explosive, he concluded. Opponents of his hypothesis called it the "Big Bang." The name stuck and over time evidence proved the hypothesis true. Today, the Big Bang has been elevated to the rank of scientific theory.

In science, a theory is a bundle of facts which taken as a whole adequately explains a given phenomenon.

Despite the revered status of the Big Bang, it has remained a subject of critical inquiry for a century.

But one question has long remained. What came before the Big Bang?

For Fr. Lemaitre, the answer was obvious -- God.

A few have argued nothing came before, for before the creation of the universe there was no such thing as time. Without time, there is nothing for the universe or anything at all to exist in.

For others, the answer was a previous universe. These scientists suggested the universe expanded, then contracted, oscillating forever. They referred to the creation of the present universe as the "Big Bounce."  Most mainstream scientists have dismissed the Big Bounce. But new research suggests it may be plausible.

A paper published in the journal, Physical Review Letters suggests a different kind of physics would have ruled the early universe. Quantum mechanics, which governs the behavior of all things at the subatomic level, would have been at work. According to these laws, the universe may have never been a singularity, a single individual point in space and time. Quantum mechanics would have prevented this from happening.

The universe would have shrunk from a previous state, but instead of collapsing into a singularity, it bounced back.

These conclusions are based on computer modeling and will need a lot more evidence to confirm. And even if true, it would at most rewrite the origin of the Big Bang to be a bounce instead of a singularity.

Presently, scientists believe the universe is expanding, and curiously, it's expansion rate is accelerating. There are no explanations for this.

Of course, every physical thing has a cause and that includes the universe. Most people agree the first cause of all the universe was God, as Fr. Lemaitre would have believed when he proposed the Big Bang theory.

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