Submission + - Big Bang or Big Bounce? (newscientist.com)
It doesn't come easy writes: Could we be getting closer to testable predictions concerning the state of our Universe at its birth? According to New Scientist, possibly. A relatively new application of the theory of Loop Quantum Gravity, called Loop Quantum Cosmology (or LQC), has been successful in modeling the well known (or at least widely accepted) condition of the Universe well after the point at which Inflation would have ended while at the same time does not require the Big Bang's singularity. The scientists which developed the computer model also expect to come up with "robust predictions" (unlike everyone's favorite string theory) in the next two years.
