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Originally Posted by Darkland
Interesting indeed, but my problem with this theory is the suppostion that the universe will end in a "Big Crunch" which has yet to have any solid proof any such event will ever happen.
We don't even know all there is about our own solar system, let alone our galaxy, neighboring galaxies and the universe at large. Among scientists there are 3 agreed possible outcomes of the universes ultimate fate.
In regarding the 3 below one must consider that the universe already contains all the energy and matter that it ever will. No new energy or matter can be created.
1. That the universe truly is infinite and always will be. The current argument against this was lost years ago amongst the steady state advocates to the big bangers.
2. That the universe continues to expand at an exponential rate and continues to do so, stretching ever thinner, cooling down and eventually dying a chilly death.
3. That the universe expands to its explosive limit (depleted energy from the big bang) and it begins to contract upon itself back to the origin of singularity. Also know as the "Big Crunch", some scientists also believe that this is a repetitive event driven phenomenon. Meaning there have been multiple "Big Bangs" and "Big Crunches", driven by a singular event, with each successive expansion being smaller and smaller.
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i don't see the mention of a multiverse here. there's a lot of study now going towards the possibility that in a multiverse, individual universes can split and have offspring baby universes. in a way somewhat similiar to single celled organism splitting and giving new life. as opposed to our singular universe just ever-expanding. that our universe and the big bang may just be the offspring of an older universe, and that we may have in fact sprung life into several other baby universes ourselves. they also say that our universes may be connected by a type of umbilical cord by means of the black holes and that on the other side of a black hole may in fact be a white hole, from which all that supposedly disappeared matter springs forth from. this could explain the instance of the big bang. a massive flush of matter being thrust forth into another dimension, creating a new universe. "big bangs" could be continuously happening.
apparently they say that gravity can cross dimensions. when looking at dark matter, which has a gravitational pull yet doesn't appear to be composed of any particular matter itself, some physicists believe this may in fact be a gravitational pull crossing dimensions from another universe. in a few years there's supposed to be a new satellite being launched which will be listening for shockwaves from the big bang or some shit along that lines. they're hoping that they may just be able to prove the existence of the multiverse by listening for these other big bang occurrences.
it's all pretty trippy shit really. quantum physics is ridiculous. strange beyond belief. read up on the double-slit experiment to shat some bricks...