Interesting theory, it does wrap up everything quite nicely.
there are many theories regarding the big bang and how it started, many involve the idea of matter and anti-matter; that the total sum of the two is zero, and that whatever cause them to split caused two separate universes in the process, one of matter and one of anti-matter. one theory goes on to extrapolate that we now have two universes acting in tandem, each going through an endless cycle. As one goes from Big Bang to a death caused by over-expansion, leading to everything freezing over from a lack of energy (Heat Death), the other goes from this head death all the way to a Reverse big bang, known as the Monobloc, in which all matter gets crushed into a point... from which it explodes again. The two work in tandem, always taking up the same amount of space (in total).
Problem with that theory is that while it avoids the "what are we expanding into" infinite problem, it has the added problem of a "how the hell did this cycle start" infinite problem.
@RT: Theoretically speaking, the Universe has to have finite volume, as without infinite time something cannot increase to infinity, just to a very, very large number.
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