More disproof of the Big Crunch
came about two months ago with the first
relaease of data from
the Boomerang experiment.
(i knew the answer since last summer hehe),
The Boomerang experiment was a balloon based
experiment that measured the cosmic
microwave background(CMB). In finding the position
of the first and second peaks in the
power spectrum of the CMB the experiment measured
the curvature of the universe.
The result indicates that the universe if flat.
That rules out the big crunch because you
need a closed universe in order for
it to recollapse.
This is better than the Orion experiment which
only probed baryonic matter. The CMB
probes all contributions to stuff in
the universe whatever it might be.
The experiment was NASA funded so
you can proabaly find info through the NASA page.