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Published online 23 February 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070219-4
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Universe bounces back from the brink
Cycling cosmos obeys thermodynamics without ripping itself apart.
It has to be the closest ever shave. Two physicists have proposed that, a fraction of a second before a cataclysm that would destroy space-time itself, the Universe may escape by abruptly collapsing to a virtually empty state that 'resets' it for a fresh cycle of cosmic expansion.
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