Damn, I said it was more of a philosophical question than an astronomical one. Like I care

 

if the Universe is actually physically shrinking? It's the deeper meaning ...

:shock: Something just came to me....

 

 

 

What if there is something outside our universe :anxious: Maybe a wall thats stopping us from moving further :anxious:

Damn, I said it was more of a philosophical question than an astronomical one. Like I care

 

if the Universe is actually physically shrinking? It's the deeper meaning ...

 

 

 

I think I understand what you mean. In the end it all doesn't matter right?

 

 

 

Personally, I go the ignorance is bliss route and even though I know there will be an end, I ignore that and just live. It makes me happier.

If you believe in the osculating universe theory then it would be theoretically possible that when the universe finally shrinks back into nothing another big bang will happen and the whole sequence would happen again, exactly the same as before. And it would do this again, and again, forever. :shock:

 

 

 

Human history would also repeat itself exactly. Whoever you'd find in one life of the universe you'd find in another.

 

 

 

In fact it's kind of depressing, knowing that all you're doing is playing out a script that's been set in stone for infinity and that you can't do anything about it.

 

 

 

In theory a way to stop it could be out there, but, if humans didn't find it in the previous universes then there's no way we'd find them now (assuming that those previous universes once existed. If they didn't it just might be possible :D )

 

 

 

Did time really start a set number of years ago? Or did it exist before that?

If you believe in the osculating universe theory then it would be theoretically possible that when the universe finally shrinks back into nothing another big bang will happen and the whole sequence would happen again, exactly the same as before. And it would do this again, and again, forever. :shock:

 

 

 

Human history would also repeat itself exactly. Whoever you'd find in one life of the universe you'd find in another.

 

 

 

In fact it's kind of depressing, knowing that all you're doing is playing out a script that's been set in stone for infinity and that you can't do anything about it.

 

 

 

In theory a way to stop it could be out there, but, if humans didn't find it in the previous universes then there's no way we'd find them now (assuming that those previous universes once existed. If they didn't it just might be possible :D )

 

 

 

Did time really start a set number of years ago? Or did it exist before that?

 

 

 

Oscillating universe theory states that the universe will begin again, not that life will. Or, if life will begin again, it doesn't have to be the same as it is now. Oscillating universe theory refers to cosmology, it is not specific.

bunch of emo crap :? I swear some people go emo over this stuff and some party themselves to death.... I fancy myself the Latter lol

bunch of emo crap :? I swear some people go emo over this stuff and some party themselves to death.... I fancy myself the Latter lol

 

 

 

Thats why ignorance is good some times, we can slip past the negative things while still keeping the realization in our heads some times.

 

 

 

As for the latter.... errr ya just don't over do it :-s

I'm pretty sure that we'll kill ourselves with war before an apocalyptic event strong enough to wipe out mankind will occur, including the sun burning out, black holes, the shrinking of which you speak.