So now they appear to be shifting gear in theory

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/qa_turok

LOL , eventually physicists and scientists are going to come to the conclusion that we dont exist , and we arent actually here, LOL.

I assume almost ANY theory we can think of , can be accepted , as long as you can convince the other scientists to believe it , then you will have a theory they will teach in school , LOL.

"According to Turok, who teaches at Cambridge University, the Big Bang represents just one stage in an infinitely repeated cycle of universal expansion and contraction. Turok theorizes that neither time nor the universe has a beginning or end."

LOL , so we're back to the steady state theory , only with expansion and contraction added.How wonderful , lol .