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What alternate theory did Fred Hoyle support in place of the Big Bang theory?

  • Multiverse theory

  • Steady-state model

  • String theory

  • Loop quantum gravity

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Fred Hoyle was an English astronomer and cosmologist who proposed the Steady-state model of the universe, which was a competing theory to the Big Bang theory. The Steady-state model proposed that the universe was eternal and unchanging, with new matter being created constantly to fill in the gaps left by the expansion of the universe.
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