You mention attempts to save the «cyclic»
eternal universe model by allowing each iteration to be larger than the last,...
Not exact matches
In his Physics, he developed a philosophy of nature (which he called second philosophy) that was a combination of metaphysics as well as empirical science, e.g. his geo - centric
model of an
eternal universe.
They propose a «cyclic
universe»
model, in which our Big Bang is just one act in an
eternal cycle of expansion and contraction.
One
model of inflation, called
eternal inflation, suggests that new
universes are continually popping into existence and expanding.