# New theory says no Big Bang? Paging the astrophysicists!

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 12, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-theory-says-no-big-bang-paging-the-astrophysicists/712432 "2015-02-12T00:47:06Z")
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### Author: ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-theory-says-no-big-bang-paging-the-astrophysicists/712432/1 "2015-02-12T00:47:06Z")

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I’ve just read about [this article](http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html) on a new theory which apparently fixes the issues of Dark Matter and Dark Energy but apparently means there was no Big Bang.

[The paper itself](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314009381) is very short, but well beyond me. [A related paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0753).

Can someone who groks astrophysics fight my ignorance and help me understand it? I mean, if the universe has existed for ever, from where does matter come, or was Sir Fred Hoyle right in his ‘steady state’ theory when he said that matter is being continually created?

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### Author: ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-theory-says-no-big-bang-paging-the-astrophysicists/712432/2 "2015-02-12T01:17:41Z")

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[Thread here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=748867)

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### Author: ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-theory-says-no-big-bang-paging-the-astrophysicists/712432/3 "2015-02-12T01:36:08Z")

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**Moderator Action**

Since there is already another recent thread on this same topic, I am going to close this and direct comments to the other thread, which **John DiFool** kindly provided a link to.

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