Past-Eternal Loop Quantum Cosmology Gets the Bounce
Abhay Ashtekar, Aron Wall, beginning, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, bounce, conformal cyclic cosmology, cosmic aeons, cosmic inflation, cosmology, cyclic cosmologies, entropy, flatness problem, geodesics, gravity, horizon problem, Kinney-Stein proof, Kinney-Stein result, loop quantum cosmology, Martin Bojowald, mechanism, Mithani-Vilenkin instability, Mithani-Vilenkin instability proof, Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems, physics, quantum effects, quantum singularity theorem, quantum-geometric bounce, Roger Penrose, scientific reasoning, Second Law of Thermodynamics, singularity theorems, Tolman entropy problem, universe
Oscillating universes have been discussed in philosophy from time immemorial and in mathematical cosmology for over one hundred years. Source