Cyclic Model: Image from Astronomy Magazine, April 2009
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The Cyclic Universe Simplified: An Introduction
Short intro for students
Long intro for students
Popular Intro: Endless Universe: The Big Bang and Beyond (Broadway Books, 2008)
NEW! A new approach for analyzing the cosmological bounce
Antigravity and the big crunch/big Bang Transition
Physics Letters
(I. Bars, S-H. Chen, PJS, N. Turok)
Naturally explaining the amplitude of density perturbations in cyclic models
PRL 106, 081301 (2011)
(J.-L. Lehners & PJS)
Can the bounce be non-singular?
PRL 105, 261301 (2010) (see also PRD84, 083520)
(B.-K. Xue & PJS)
Dark Energy & the Return of the Phoenix Universe
PRD 79, 063503 (2009)
(J.-L. Lehners & PJS)
Generation of Gravitational Waves in the Cyclic Universe
(Subdominant) Primordial perturbations
(Dominant) 2nd Order Scalar-induced g-waves
Non-gaussianity: A Key Prediction of the Cyclic Model
How to compute non-gaussianity in cyclic models
An Intuitive Approach, 2nd Order
An Intuitive Approach, 3rd Order
Predictions of Spectral tilt
Inflationary vs. Cyclic Model Predictions
Generation of Density Perturbations in the Cyclic Universe (Linear Order)
PRD76, 103501 (2007)
(J.-L. Lehners, P. McFadden, PJS & N. Turok)
Why the cosmological constant is small and positive (a cyclic solution)
SCIENCE 312, 1180 (2006)
(PJS & N. Turok)
The Cyclic Model of the Universe
Original Paper (SCIENCE)
More detailed description
(PJS & N. Turok)
For Fun:
Cyclocosmos: Poetic Rendition of the Cyclic Model by Bill Robinson
George Carlin on the cyclic universe
Jim Carrey, Stephen Hawking and the Ekpyrotic Universe (beginning after 2:30 min)
Cosmocard