Something About the Universe (with audio link)

Philosophically speaking the configuration of energy in various forms of steady state mass with dimensions, time, motion etc is abstract yet contingent unto the spirit of God.  Strings, quarks and other steady state mass seem to be entangled waveforms arisen from an implicate or implicit field underlying space-time and mass energy.

 http://www.buzzsprout.com/20597/164185-the-implicate-quantum-cosmology

There is entropy and a direction in that field regarding time evidently, yet those are contingent to the actualization of the field-Universe. The scale of the Universe and the capacity for it to recur are I would think be delimited by the intellectual capacity of the human mind. a hypothesized event cycle such as inflation, big bang, or colliding membranes such as Turok described obviously could be posited to recur infinitely though there is no necessity.

 http://www.statecolumn.com/2014/04/boss-uses-140000-quasars-to-make-most-precise-measurement-yet-of-expanding-universe/

The quantum state of a given kind of atom might be hypothesized to recur within given field conditions yet one knows that isn't all of the story to the Universe, and neither is one event-process for the history of this Universe likely to be all.

I believe God created the Universe-in particular Jesus Christ as the Word of God. He may create infinite numbers of Universes though. A Universe created by God may be entirely contingent within the Spirit of God,  with energy and mass being some sort of spiritual element of waves with selectively broken field symmetries or limited access that differentiate as substance and appear to be solid-state mass.

There are lots of ideas to consider in the field.