• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    The Universe is expanding, rapidly from the big bang still. At some point, it will slow down, and then stop. Then begins a catastrophic cycle of collapse with massive black holes coalescing into one universe eating black hole that compresses every bit of matter into a single point of almost infinite density. At this point the black hole destabilizes, and all of the stored energy is released in one colossal explosion. A Big Bang of sorts.

    The Universe is an Ouroboros.

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      16 days ago

      Sometimes I think our universe is just an explosion in a big ass combustion engine.

      So everytime I drive a car I create and destroy countless universes just to get some nuggets. Worth it.

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee
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      15 days ago

      At some point, it will slow down, and then stop

      All of the current scientific evidence disagrees with this. 1) There is a velocity such that you can go faster than gravity will be able to slow you down: escape velocity. So, it’s possible even without any new, weird physics. 2) The hubble constant shows that the universe isn’t slowing down, but the opposite: it’s accelerating. Physics doesn’t know why (see Dark Energy). It’s physically measurable that things farther away are accelerating even faster scaling with distance.