“A closed universe means that it will expand to some point at which gravity will take hold and bring it all back to a hot ending or another Big Bang. Here I [Cliff Clinton] have chosen the closed universe because I believe that the fabric of space will at some point take up the strain caused by the energy put into it at the time of the Big Bang and stop the expansion”.

Edited from article on the net by Cliff Clinton: http://www.gravityms.com/