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rialists who accept the Big Bang theory but try to exorcise it of the notion
of Creation. One of these is the "oscillating" universe model; another is the
"quantum model of universe". Let us examine these theories and see why
they are invalid.
The oscillating universe model was advanced by the astronomers
who disliked the idea the Big Bang was the beginning of the universe. In
this model, it is claimed that the present expansion of the universe will
eventually be reversed at some point and begin to contract. This contrac-
tion will cause everything to collapse into a single point that will then ex-
plode again, initiating a new round of expansion. This process, they say, is
repeated infinitely in time. This model also holds that the universe has ex-
perienced this transformation an infinite number of times already and that
it will continue to do so forever. In other words, the universe exists for eter-
nity but it expands and collapses at different intervals with a huge explo-
sion punctuating each cycle. The universe we live in is just one of those in-
finite universes going through the same cycle.
This is nothing but a feeble attempt to accommodate the fact of the Big
Bang to notions about an infinite universe. The proposed scenario is un-
supported by the results of scientific research over the last 15-20 years,
which show that it is impossible for such an "oscillating" universe idea to
come into being. Furthermore the laws of physics offer no reason why a
contracting universe should explode again after collapsing into a single
point: it ought to stay just as it is. Nor do they offer a reason why an ex-
panding universe should ever begin to contract in the first place. 8
Even if we allow that there is some mechanism by which this cycle of
contraction-explosion-expansion does take place, the crucial point is that
this cycle cannot go on for ever, as is claimed. Calculations for this model
show that each universe will transfer an amount of entropy to its succes-
sor. In other words, the amount of useful energy available becomes less
each time and every "opening" universe will open more slowly and have a
larger diameter. This will cause a much smaller universe to form the next
time around and so on, eventually petering out into nothing. Even if "open
and close" universes can exist, they cannot endure for eternity. At some