It Didn’t Start With A Bang
How Spacetime Conservation Predicts an Oscillating Universe
14 min readFeb 9, 2019
Newton’s Law of Universal gravitation, discovered in 1687, was a powerful tool to describe not only the parabolic arc of cannon fire but the elliptical orbits of the planets. Newton’s treatise was hugely explanatory; nearly all known phenomena in the physics of his day could be understood by his conceptual scaffold…