Accelerating Universe Expansion: Big Bang or Repulsive Force?

[Chalk]

I recently read that there is apparently a repulsive force that acts over very long distances that is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate. I was just wondering if there is any data that disprove the possibility that the big bang was not a singular event and that rather than being driven away by a repulsive force, the matter at the edge of the observable universe might not be getting drawn towards matter that is still farther away that had its origins in a preceding big bang. Is there some reason that we know this is not possible?

 

[Naty1]

I was just wondering if there is any data that disprove the possibility that the big bang was not a singular event and that rather than being driven away by a repulsive force, the matter at the edge of the observable universe might not be getting drawn towards matter that is still farther away that had its origins in a preceding big bang. Is there some reason that we know this is not possible?

No guarantee that the big bang and inflation even happened... just a theory with a lot of supporting evidence that appears to confirm the theory. I've never seen a plausible nor implausiable theory that matches your hypothesis...

 

[Chalnoth]

I recently read that there is apparently a repulsive force that acts over very long distances that is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate. I was just wondering if there is any data that disprove the possibility that the big bang was not a singular event and that rather than being driven away by a repulsive force, the matter at the edge of the observable universe might not be getting drawn towards matter that is still farther away that had its origins in a preceding big bang. Is there some reason that we know this is not possible?

This has been looked into, and the implications are, frankly, absurd. It requires that we have a local underdensity by a factor of about a hundred from the surroundings compared to stuff just a few billion light years out.
Here's a recent paper that looked into this:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/0902.1313