The University of Chicago's Sunyaev-Zeldovich Array - searching for the point in time when dark energy became an important force in the evolution of the universe. Credit: Erik Leitch, University of Chicago.
A recent cosmological model seeks to get around the sticky issue of dark energy by jury-rigging the Einstein field equation so that the universe naturally expands in an accelerated fashion. In doing so, the model also eliminates the sticky issue of singularities – although this includes eliminating the singularity from which the Big Bang originated. Instead the model proposes that we just live in an eternal universe that kind of oscillates geometrically.
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