Ok - if all the matter is spreading out away from us - how come some of it is heading towards us?
IE the Milky Way and the galaxy Andromeda are on a collision course - long long way off in terms of our tiny numbered days here - but perhaps not so long away in cosmoligical terms.
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/hp/...1andmilwy.html
Im sure there are calculations that can show its due to gravitational deflection - but it is an indication anyways that it can all collapse again - at least certain large sections of it.
With the absolute seemingly vastness of space and time - I seriously have to consider that all this down on this rock is just a very very strange illusion.
In fact - I find it sooooo freaking strange and illusion (this down here) - when I consider just how utterly tiny we as individuals are - that I see no reason at all to suspect that we dont carry on in some other "strange illusion" after we die here.
I mean - how much stranger than this life can it get? Probably a whole lot stranger - and maybe - less strange too.
The state of the universe before the big bang - well - another form of illusion I guess.
It easier to understand when you realise that YOU TOO - are a bit of the shit that was chucked out of an explosion. You are not separate from it or special - you are a part of it.
To portray - somebody once said that the definition of the word nature was "All that is not human kind".
Personally how can anyone be so utterly thick to even attempt to portray US as something separate from everthing else.
When you feel the wind on your face next time - your skin is breathing it in - you move through the universe and it moves through you constantly.
We are all part of it - and we are all one.
Hope this helps.