>>8193202
Did you make this diagram yourself?
Because it doesn't make any sense.

Yep, it's one proposed possibility, but no one knows for sure. Another possibility is the heat-death of the universe, where the universe keeps expanding until nothing collides any more and everything is "dead" (ie. no further interactions at all).

But again, no one knows-- it's one of the great mysteries in physics.

>>8193202
No. The universe will continually expand forever, as far as we know.

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html

>>8193218
>Yep, it's one proposed possibility
A very unlikely one, though. We are pretty sure that the expansion of the universe is still accelerating

>>8193202
Vertical axis, what art thou?

>>8193202
What in the absolute fuck are you talking about

Isn't this kind of like the Big Rip theory or whatever it's called?

>>8193216
Infinite periods of expansion/regression of the universe, with ocassional zero value moments. During the negative vertical value (second half of the whole wave) time and space work in reverse.

>>8193245
big crunch

>>8193202
If this is true, then there is no death by entropy.

test

>>8193228
Rate of expansion, I'm guessing

>>8193305
Why should there be death by entropy?

>>8193202
My honest opinion is that due to the fact that there must always be energy at every point, the universe will continue to expand until matter is no longer the most stable form of the energy/mass equation, leading to an equilibrium favoring the conversion of matter to energy. The universe will expand until all mass has become energy and then will slowly approach an expansion rate of 0, yet it will never reach 0, it is a limit.

>>8195555
Thermodynamics - shit you observe live and can test in laboratory - fundamental sciences conclusions.

>>8195555
Entropy is a social construct.