What is this article championing? An infinite universe? I thought that was already discarded, it certainly should be since it isn't logical. But aside from that

What is this article championing? An infinite universe? I thought that was already discarded, it certainly should be since it isn't logical. But aside from that, doesn't the theory put forward by this article violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics? It's just shifting the "nothing->something" equation from The Big Bang to "oh you know, whenever. a little bit now and again adds up you know". And seems to be doing it by saying that "Well see, the universe will never truly be empty, so before the Big Bang is wasn't empty either". Without ever really explaining how this isn't just kicking the can backwards down the road.