The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978 Pro/Processed

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All existing science suggests there can never be a big crunch, that concept predates observations of the universe acceleratingnits expansion, when people thought gravity must be slowing the expansion and thus could stop and reverse it at some point in the future.

There are no past universes and there's nothing to suggest there will ever be another. This is it, we exist in the very early part of the warm universe and there's only so much time ahead of us before everything not local dissapears over the horizon and everything that's left goes cold and dead for all of eternity, the universe doesn't operate on terms that are friendly to your concepts of right and wrong.

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u/thanatossassin Jan 16 '22

I think the larger issue is the search for a universal starting or stopping point, and even your point of view assumes finality, "This is it." I don't get it, you're trashing a theory with idea that we don't know, to then just act as if we do know. Pick a lane.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Our current universe is actually a pocket of 'newniverse' created by the Old Ones, who fought against entropy of their own universe by using the power of dark antimatter to create a shell of strong force, to contain our Big Bang and reseed themselves into this universe. The shell is dense and strong, but can't stop the Void outside the shell from attracting the matter of this universe (much like osmosis) which is why our universe is expanding. The various rates of expansion are due to weakness in the shell, the weaker areas attracts our mass faster than the stronger.

It's unknown at this time if the Old Ones will be willing or able to create another newniverse, or if humans will evolve past the Great Filter or develop the necessary technologies in time and space to create another.

Just figured you'd like to know.

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u/Ohbeejuan Jan 16 '22

Duly noted

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u/RiotBoi13 Jan 16 '22

Damn man, don’t have to take it so personally

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u/m4tt1111 Jan 16 '22

Mf took a theory about the end of the universe personally

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u/recruz Jan 16 '22

Maybe there doesn’t have to be a single Big Crunch to rule them all. There could be just, sufficiently large crunches (super-duper massive black hole?) that essentially gets the process started all over again

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u/cheapdrinks Jan 16 '22

What was before the big bang tho

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u/DnDVex Jan 16 '22

The small bang

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u/Has_Recipes Jan 16 '22

The universe came down with a bad case of acceleratingitis.