Originally posted by PhoenixOD
I think due to law of entropy everything eventually decays and falls apart, slows down and stops. Order turns chaos and not the other way around.

Apparently theres just not enough mass in the universe to stop its expansion so the gaps in between all the atoms will just keep getting larger. The other part of this theory is that the universe is flat and not curved so the expansion will go on forever. A lot of people were hoping that the universe was curved and eventually if you went in one direction for long enough you would end up where you started.

There is a beginning and an end we witness everyday in all aspects of our world as we perceive it.
Would there not be a continuity to this to the known universe and beyond?

This is my universe and you are just here and so is all matter so that i will have something to entertain me and vice versa

Years ago, I recall a discussion of removing the anti-matter from nothingness, and matter could result-- and a whole bunch of energy.

That makes no sense on a Newtonian level, but at a quantum level, I'm told it kind of does.

Of course, the Prime Mover has always been the problem with the Big Bang.

So, what if the Big Bang only refers to some of the dimensions and caused by one or more of the others?

Conceptually, I wonder what happens if we take away just one dimension from a thing with length, width, depth and time-- leaving any three in tact The thing still exists, but ceases to be matter as we know it.

Reversing that thought... then, what if the Big Bang was merely the natural result of one new dimension being added as a natural result of what already existed?

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Oh, and as for expansion resulting in the cooling until nothing but dead rocks...

I don't think that is possible. Imagine the coldest, smallest and loneliest rock in the universe, and, at the atomic level, it is in constant motion with enormous energy- and infinitely larger than what was before the Big Bang.