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Originally posted by VIKINGANT
It has been endlessly discussed that there is a school of thought that the universe at eventually will start to retract towards the point of the original singularity. Further to this it has also been suggested that it has already happened many times.
My thought on this is pretty simple and possibly over simplified, but that is how my mind works.
Basically, if there was an originating Big Bang and all the matter was flung out into the cosmos, there would be little to no matter left at the origin point, therefore nothing to generate any kind of gravity in order for everything to be drawn back together.
Any thoughts? Is this a reasonable theory?
Originally posted by prevenge
where does it say that the crunch has to ocurr at the exat same point that the bang originated?
Originally posted by TheRealDonPedros
reply to post by eniac
Not sure if that last post was directed at me?
"the whole universe is the centre. it wasn't so much that 'stuff' flew out froma central point in space into other space, it was space (and time, confusingly) itself that expanded."
That's exactly what the raisin bun model implies, wiki JJ Thompson as I'm quite sure that he came up with this theory.
Peace