Just as a starting point, here are a few of the models that I am aware of(feel free to add more if you know them): > >

• Big Bang Theory - George Gamow >
• Oscillating Universe Theory - George Gamow (Disproved by Robert Jastrow, founder and director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies) >
• Steady State Theory - Fred Hoyle (Also abandoned by Hoyle) >
• Inflationary Universe Theory - Allan Guth and Paul Steinhardt 1984 >
• ZPE-Plasma Universe Theory - Barry Setterfield >
• Electric Universe Theories - Many variations >

-> > Tony-Steinhardt and Turok have a giant parallel membranes theory. They bang together to start a new cycle. Turok worked with Hawking. Please don't smile. They are serious.