Miroku4444

Scientist use to think that the outward expanse of the universe would someday slow and eventually retract inward on itself and eventually cause another big bang. Now they think it will keep expanding outward faster and faster outward resulting in the eventual destruction of the universe; via collapsing and burning, or galactic ice age. Ive even heard the universe might even break down to the most simplest atoms, and life will cease to exist everywhere in the universe.

I personally don't believe this. Even know its expanding outward faster and faster outward now, don't mean someday it will slow and eventually retract inward on itself for some unseen reason. Anyhow being a man of faith, i believe god had a hand in the universe, and i dont think he would allow it to cease to exist totally.

But even if the universe did cease to exist i still believe there would be a re-birth. To me with the death of something theres always a re-birth:

examples:

1-A old man dies, a child is born.
2-A civilization fall, and new one is born.
3-A star goes super nova, a new star is born.


I don't see the universe being any different. If it does die, i think eventually a new one will form.


So what do you guys think about this??

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kedar

In my opinion: Similarly as (I believe) there exists the cycle of life, death, and rebirth of the body, the universe also undergoes the cycle of creation and destruction. So yes, I am with you on your conviction.

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Legend

That already holds true in some ways to what we know in astronomy. Billions of years from now our sun is going to burn out, but it is not going to die. It will simply burn for another few years before it blows up, reform with other astro matter and reform.

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Kazaf

It's hard to imagine that something so big and almost infinite as the universe could just cease to exist just like that. If anything I believe it would take many light years for the universe to cease existing. Sort of like the domino effect. When our Sun dies it could cause a possible chain reaction. A small ripple will some day become a giant wave.

Quite frankly though...it almost seems impossible. Lunacy or something lol. But I'm open minded enough to see this as a minute possibility. I believe though that our solar system will surely disappear one day and a new one will appear from it's demise.

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Arrianna

It is all matter. As long as matter exists there will be the potential for the birth of life. So yes, I would agree in a way as well.

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LenMiyata

Grumble Grumble Grumble
Actually, it isn't all matter (which doesn't matter...) It came as quite a shock to astrophysicist around the world to be handed enough information to show that over 90% of what the Universe is actually made of we don't have any clue at all on what it is... There is a substance that has mass and produces gravity, yet doesn't interact with light (other then the gravity effect...) called 'Dark Matter', and there is something else that is driving the apparent expansion of the Universe (at an accelerating rate...) called 'Dark Energy'. Other then the observed effects, no one has any idea (or evidence to support the idea...) on what is causing these effects, and the mechanism that they do so. And anyone who can crack this puzzle, your talking Nobel Prize Award here...

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Arrianna

Funny, I thought it was called the "fudge factor".

*refer to Einstein.

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gamemaster331

I agree with the Life-Death-Rebirth process. It's already in many different cultures and it makes sense to me. Besides, some scientists have hypothesized that there was a Universe before this one, already.

cantsenditback

Newton Third Law, for every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction. Someone died, someone else is born, Star go nova, then go white drawf, now apply this law to the universe, if possible, IF the universe is ever expanding slowly, then one day its possible that it would slowly ever collapsing destorying everything in it

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Scourge

There is new theory one I mentioned before in the creation thread and that is the universe will end but its not going to retract in on its self I don’t believe. The theory goes like this. Do to the rapped expansion of the universe will get to the point where that its growth and rapped velocity will over come gravity, and sense everything is held together by gravity in one form or another that things will literally fall apart, being turned into dust. Now this universal decay will start on the larger scale which will be at the edge of the universe moving inward. But the thing is this. Even if it starts to it will still take billions of billions of billions of years before everything is torn a sunder which by then the Human race will be long gone. But we have nothing to fear as it is estimated that even with this new acceleration of the universe that it’s still only about half its life span right now. So the universe will still exist for several more billions of billions of billions of years before it starts to come undone.

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Rave_Grip

Here goes nothing.

Since the universe is expanding, as proven by the ever occurring 'Red Shift', which is a surprise since all matter stops gradually after being involved in an explosion, here is quite the contrary; the universe is spreading out faster and shows no signs of slowing down.
If this continues over a period of billions of years, then all the forces holding everything together will consequently weaken [such as gravity]. Therefore the matter would disintegrate [I think opposing the law of conservation of Matter?]; eventually everything ceases to function and exist. Then, time too will be destroyed.
In the end, there would be nothing.

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