A brief introduction to the ekpyrotic universe http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/~steinh/npr/ An article about the cyclical universe. Proposing that the universe is an endless cycle of big bangs and big crunches. http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/steinhardt.html
trippy ideas, really blows my mind. The big bang theory, the string theory, and the ekpyrotic theory all seem like they would work... what if they're all correct? Then again, I'm no scientist.
Theoretically they all could work. It's hard to say if we'll ever find the answer to the deeper mysteries.
Not Trippy at all.. been around for 5 decades or more. Logical. cyclic universe theory is one half of science thinking. If you read books you would know this.