Everything we thought we knew about the Big Bang theory may be WRONG according to this amazing new theory
Brazilian physicist Juliano Cesar Silva Neves claims the Big Bang never happened some 13.8 billion years ago
THE Big Bang theory has been the most widely accepted explanation about how our universe all began - but now experts are challenging the theory.
Brazilian physicist Juliano Cesar Silva Neves claims the Big Bang never happened some 13.8 billion years ago saying the universe may have been preceded by a contraction phase.
The Big Bang theory states the universe started with a small singularity then stretched and expanded over billions of years to the cosmos that we know today.
But Neves believes in Big Bounce theory in which the universe collapses on itself giving way to an eternal succession of universes.
The researcher, from the University of Campinas’ Mathematics, Statistics & Scientific Computation Institute in Sao Paulo, said: "In order to measure the rate at which the Universe is expanding with the standard cosmology, the model in which there’s a Big Bang, a mathematical function is used that depends only on cosmological time.
"Eliminating the singularity or Big Bang brings back the bouncing universe on to the theoretical stage of cosmology.
"The absence of a singularity at the start of spacetime opens up the possibility that vestiges of a previous contraction phase may have withstood the phase change and may still be with us in the ongoing expansion of the Universe."
In a study published in the journal General Relativity and Gravitation, Neves explores the behaviour of "regular" black holes.
According him, a black hole is not defined by singularity, but a point with infinite density and the strongest gravitational attraction known to exist.
He said: "Outside the event horizon of a regular black hole, there are no major changes, but inside it, the changes are deep-seated.
"There's a different spacetime that avoids the formation of a singularity."
What is the Big Bounce?
The Big Bounce is a hypothetical cosmological model for the origin of the known universe.
It is the theory that our universe didn’t pop into existence as in the Big Bang.
The theory claims that the universe is cyclic, meaning that our current universe was formed after the collapse of a previous universe, and that these cosmological events are repeated infinitely.
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Neves says the hypothesis can be tested by "looking for traces of the events in a contraction phase that may have remained in the ongoing expansion phase"
The physicist added: "The candidates include remnants of black holes from a previous phase of universal contraction that may have survived the bounce."