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Big Bang Theory...?

Here's another theroy of mine...The universe started with one big mass that exploded and exspanded to the far reaches of space... Now scientists are saying that the universe is getting smaller... Inturn gravity is causing the universe to collapse back on itself right? If this is true then all matter will come back together at one single point and the big bang would happen again... question is how many times has this already done that? Is this the first universe ever created, or maybe the 1,000,000th... people question how old the universe is, but how old is space that the universe is in...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    The Universe is still expanding. This can be proven by looking at other Galaxies which due to their redshift are moving away from us. The Universe exploded from the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago and it is thought that the Universe will exist for about 5 billion more years, at which time it will start to contract, due to its gravity, and will contract until it is the same size as it was just after the last Big Bang. Once the Universe has fully contracted it will bounce back into yet another Universe. The absolute emptiness outside of the Universe is trillions and many trillions of years old. It is older than you or i can possibly ever imagine!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's not true. The universe isn't getting smaller, in fact recent observations from the WMAP are consistent with a geometrically flat and expanding universe.

    It is hypothesized that if someday gravity overcomes the expansion of the universe, it will pull everything back into a singularity and another Big Bang might occur.

    The Big Crunch is just one of the possible ends of the universe, again it relies on te assumtion that someday gravity will overcome the expansion of the universe. I myself don't see that happening since the universe expansion continues to accelerate. I also don't see the Big Crunch happening since the overwhelming majority of the unverse is dark energy, which is responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Who knows? Who cares?

  • 1 decade ago

    whoa, I never really thought about it that way before. :]

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