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``The Ekpyrotic Universe: Colliding Branes and the Origin of Big Bang," J. Khoury, B. Ovrut, P.J. Steinhardt and N. Turok, hep-th/0103239.

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See also: feynman.princeton.edu/$\sim$steinh