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Letter: Back to the idea of a yo-yo universe

Published 9 April 2025

From Nigel Tuersley, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UK

Applying the same logic that gave rise to the big bang theory to the apparent slowdown in the accelerating expansion of the cosmos argues for a cyclical universe, in which expansion gives way to progressive contraction, and ultimately to an inconceivably dense, atom-like singularity of the sort that led to the big bang (22 March, p 8).

Issue no. 3538 published 12 April 2025

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