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This list of 10 bizarre theories about the universe include the “epkyrotic theory” and others.  A lot of these are difficult to get one’s mind around  because unlike typical science experiments in a lab, we are really posing theories about things that are billions of light years in distance from us.  A lot of this is based on the doppler effect in astronomy. Here is some background on it from the University of Illinois website:

In astronomy, the Doppler effect was originally studied in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Today, the Doppler shift, as it is also known, applies to electromagnetic waves in all portions of the spectrum. Also, because of the inverse relationship between frequency and wavelength, we can describe the Doppler shift in terms of wavelength. Radiation is redshifted when its wavelength increases, and is blueshifted when its wavelength decreases.

Let’s see what interesting theories about the universe are on this list in the video on page 2

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