![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090509065752im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field What Happened Before the Big Bang?
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July 1, 2007
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New discoveries about another universe whose collapse appears to have given birth to the one we have today are in a research paper to be published on July 1, 2007. The paper introduces a new mathematical model that gives new details about the beginning of our universe, which now appears to have been a Big Bounce, according to a new theory of quantum gravity, and not a Big Bang, as described by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
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