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Science 13 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5515, pp. 189 - 191
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5515.189
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COSMOLOGY:
Big Bang's New Rival Debuts With a Splash

Charles Seife

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND--If evidence is found to prove a new idea by four cosmologists, the big bang may make way for a big splat. Their theory, posted online (arXiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103239) and unveiled here last week in a surprise talk at the Space Telescope Science Institute, provides what other scientists are calling the first credible alternative to the reigning big bang model and its long-standing add-on, inflation.

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