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« on: October 19, 2012, 06:49:40 PM »

Continued acceleration.  The dominance of dark matter begins to counteract gravity at smaller scales.  Galaxies start to break apart.  Then star clusters.  Then solar systems.  Then stars and planets themselves.  Then finally, the very forces that hold molecules and atoms together.  The universe dissipates, and cools.  Only black holes... which cannot be broken apart but instead fade through the emission of Hawking radiation,  remain in the universe.  10 to the 100th years from now, the last black holes fade away.  Then, there is nothing.  No space or time. 

That's what i think is the most likely.  To me... the following one is the most beautiful. (but probably wrong)

It is generally accepted by physicists and astronomers that the universe began with a rapid expansion of space and time from an original singularity, a point in space infinitely dense.  (side note: I hate the term Big Bang because it makes people picture an explosion.  This was likely not the case... it was probably more like a balloon inflating at an unimaginable rate).  This rapid expansion started what came to be known as our universe.  After trillions and trillions of years, the expansion of the universe is counteracted by gravity.  Everything begins to collapse on itself.  At the end, the universe is compressed back into a singularity, back where we started.  However, by it's very definition, a singularity is a very specific thing.  Every singularity which contains within itself all the energy in the universe must be identical.  So, if that singularity were to rapidly expand... then the expansion event must be like event from before.  Therefore the second event must be identical.  Then the third... and fourth... etc etc etc.... Basically the universe relives itself identical to how it did before in every way.  The moment you are living right now, you have lived it infinite times in the past... you will live it infinite times in the future.  Simple, symmetrical, perfect.  I believe it to be almost certainly untrue.. but undeniably beautiful.  (and I'm aware this was described at the end of K-Pax... but I had thought of it before I saw that movie)

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