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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Oscillating Universe

  AUTHORS: Gerhard Lessner

  KEYWORDS: Origin of the Universe, Creation of Matter and Radiation, Cosmological Constant

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.2 No.10, October 19, 2011

  ABSTRACT: It is pointed out that the inflationary flat Λ-CDM-model coming out from a big bang seems to be inconsistent. An alternative model based on previous work by the author is outlined. It starts with a geometrical phase transition in Minkowski space where the source of the gravitational field is a Higgs-like scalar field φ. After the phase transition space-time is a contracting anti-deSitter space. Matter and radiation are created over a very long period of about 30 billion years from the gravitational energy. About 44 billion years after the phase transition the universe runs through a nonsingular minimum.