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Published online 26 April 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020422-17

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Big bangs spark row

Cosmologists claim Universe has been forming and reforming for eternity.

The Universe was not born in one Big Bang, it has been going through cycles of creation and annihilation for eternity, according to a controversial new mathematical model1.

It's a compelling claim.

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