ABSTRACT
There is no evidence that there is a cyclical history in linear time. Indeed, there is positive evidence against it. For one thing, there is no plausible evidence that there are many cycles of expansion and contraction.4 Furthermore, there is compelling reason to think that even if there were different cycles of expansion and contraction, the different cycles would contain different kinds of events or states. For example, later cycles would contain more radiation than earlier cycles and would expand to greater radii. Further, the second law of thermodynamics (“Disorder always increases”) implies that each cycle would be more disordered than the cycle that preceded it. Thus, the concept of a cyclical history in linear time remains a mere conceptual possibility.
