(June 8, 2019 at 6:58 am)Interaktive Wrote: it seems like Richard Tolman proved the inconsistency of the cyclical universe due to the problem of entropy, in the middle of the 20th century
He couldn't help it, poor fellow, as he died too soon. Entropic considerations are more or less answered by things like brane cosmology and loop quantum cosmology, among others.
Boru
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