Three trillion years from now, the universe May 31 2007
Three trillion years from now, the universe will be observably static, the Milky Way alone, and scientists of the day likely won't be able to "infer that the beginning involved a Big Bang".
kottke.org posts about bigbang
Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog are publishing Jun 21 2006
Maybe the universe is a trillion years May 05 2006
Maybe the universe is a trillion years old and has experienced several big bangs and big collapses over the years. "People have inferred that time began then, but there really wasn't any reason for that inference. What we are proposing is very radical. It's saying there was time before the big bang."
