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Power Femme
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Originally Posted by Huge-Smile
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/343902
I am by no means a physicist, but it had never occurred to me to think that the Universe wouldn't have an end (at least as it pertains to the way we know it now). However, I am absolutely riveted [and simultaneously a little unnerved] by the complexity and possibilities of this machine!
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I find this scenario for the end of the universe rather interesting. The two scenarios that I've been most familiar with--heat death and the Big Crunch have nothing on this. The first, heat death, is a consequence of the universe expanding. Since *most* of the universe is spreading out away from most of the rest of the universe (here I'm largely talking about galaxies) at some point these objects will get so far away from one another that they are no longer visible. The night sky on any given planet would be largely just darkness because there would be nothing else within a planet's 'light cone' (the distance where light can still be viewed from a distant source).
The Big Crunch (which I don't know if anyone even talks about it any longer) is just a reverse of the Big Bang. Since gravity is *always* attractive, eventually all the mass in the universe would pull on all the other mass in the universe eventually resulting in the universe collapsing in on itself. I believe that given the expansion of the universe that is very unlikely to happen.
This idea that a tear in space-time will destroy the universe is intriguing.
Cheers
Aj
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