is one of the possible scenarios of the end of the universe where the universe is predicted to shrink and eventually collapse on itself.
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Oscillating Universe Theory
Proposed that the universe currently exists between the big bang and the big crunch(one of the predicted ends of the universe)
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Big Crunch
is one of the possible scenarios of the end of the universe where the universe is predicted to shrink and eventually collapse on itself.
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Eternal Inflation Theory
Supposes that instead of ending in a big crunch as the oscillating universe, the inflation never stops.
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Aristotelian & Ptolemaic Universe
Earth is the center of the Solar System
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Multiverse Theory
Andrei Linde proposed that the universe is as just one many “bubbles” that grew as part of the multiverse.
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Copernican Universe
Sun is the center of the Solar System
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Big Bang Theory
All matter and energy once exploded out of a single point
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Creation Story
All life forms existing today on Earth have been created by a supreme being-God.
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Atomic Universe
They held that the universe was composed of very small, indivisible, and indestructible atoms.
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Primordial Universe of Anaxagoras
The original state of the cosmos was a primordial mixture of all its ingredients which existed in infinitesimally small fragments of themselves.
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Steady State Theory
Assumed that the universe has always been and will always be the same.
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Rigveda Theory
It describes the universe as an oscillating universein which a “cosmic egg” or Brahmanda, containing the whole universe expands out of a single concentrated point called Bindu (point or dot), and will eventually collapse again.
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Encounter Hypothesis
a collision happened and huge amounts of gas from the sun explode out of it but more in the same directions around the sun
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The Nebular Hypothesis
states that our solar system formed from the gravitational collapse of a giant interstellar gas cloud—the solar nebula.
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