Image Factory: Time as a cycle

Time moving in cycles or rather our physical world moving in cycles of time is another interesting concept, one which is evident in almost any living thing or otherwise (although it is more clear to us in that which lives)

Living things ( Animals, Fauna etc.) have very evident cycles of life. The shortest and most obvious/abundant to us humans is the life cycle of trees, how in the spring their leaves are 'born', in the summer the leaves 'live', in the autumn they begin to 'fail/become ill' , and in the winter they 'die', all before being 'reborn' in the spring thus completing the cycle of time and the cycle continues.

Time/life cycles vary with different cyclic model, the longest cyclic model being the cyclic model of the universe proposed by Einstein , in which he stated the universe is in a constant state of flux. First a Big Bang followed by an exponential  expansion before the gravitational pull of mass begins to cause the universe to begin shrinking before undergoing a Big Crunch and bouncing back with another Bang. The cycle is obvious here:

Big Bang- Birth
Expansion of the universe- Growth
Retraction of the universe- Old age/Illness
Big Crunch-Death
Big Bang-Rebirth