7 ‘Scientific’ Theories of How the Universe Formed That Reject the Big Bang
by Stephen Johnson from Lifehacker on (#5X3J4)
The Big Bang theory has provided the most widely accepted basis of our understanding of the universe since it was first proposed by Georges Lemaitre in 1927. In short, it posits that all the matter in the entire universe was once crammed together in a mass about the size of a baseball, until it began expanding outward...