AfflictedTripp

Pie'

$5 foot long or $10 2 foot long?

"AfflictedTripp said:

"adam_grif said:

"TwoOneFive said:

"the big bang

the end of the universe

"

No such thing. Time had a beginning but it does not have an end. The universe is destined to expand outwards at an ever accelerating rate, eventually all energy in the universe will be dispersed to such a degree that no life anywhere is possible. Eventually, at some point after that, all usable energy will have become waste energy, with no chance of recovering any of it. This is called "Maximum Entropy", and it is completely inevitable.

Luckily it's a very, very, very, very, very long way away."

Not to get us more off topic but, it's suspected that the universe will collapse in on itself at some point after expanding too much. The Universe likely will end as there was recently an article saying scientists believe they'd found evidence of a universe before ours. If
I can dig up the article I'll post it but your idea certainly sounds possible so who knows :)

Edit: http://www.physorg.com/news126955971.html not the article I read but it covers the same subject"

Why do people assume that simply because the universe is expanding it is somehow going to have a rubberband reflex and snap backwards? Has no one considered that it will eventually stop expanding and stand still? If you throw a baseball it will eventually stop moving, but it won't come right back at you. If you a throw a pebble into a pond the ripples will not reverse themselves.

I'm not sure I believe in this theory, in fact I simply do not."

"AfflictedTripp said:

"adam_grif said:

"TwoOneFive said:

"the big bang

the end of the universe

"

No such thing. Time had a beginning but it does not have an end. The universe is destined to expand outwards at an ever accelerating rate, eventually all energy in the universe will be dispersed to such a degree that no life anywhere is possible. Eventually, at some point after that, all usable energy will have become waste energy, with no chance of recovering any of it. This is called "Maximum Entropy", and it is completely inevitable.

Luckily it's a very, very, very, very, very long way away."

Not to get us more off topic but, it's suspected that the universe will collapse in on itself at some point after expanding too much. The Universe likely will end as there was recently an article saying scientists believe they'd found evidence of a universe before ours. If
I can dig up the article I'll post it but your idea certainly sounds possible so who knows :)

Edit: http://www.physorg.com/news126955971.html not the article I read but it covers the same subject"

No, the so called "big crunch hypothesis" (wherein it expands, then collapses, then expands again) used to be a strong possibility, however it was overturned in the 1990's when people discovered that the expansion of the universe was not slowing down as predicted, but accelerating. This means that a never ending expansion is really the only possibility.

Maximum entropy is not "my idea", it is the current scientific consensus, and it's not interesting, it's incredibly depressing. :("

"TwoOneFive said:

"the big bang

the end of the universe

"

No such thing. Time had a beginning but it does not have an end. The universe is destined to expand outwards at an ever accelerating rate, eventually all energy in the universe will be dispersed to such a degree that no life anywhere is possible. Eventually, at some point after that, all usable energy will have become waste energy, with no chance of recovering any of it. This is called "Maximum Entropy", and it is completely inevitable.

Luckily it's a very, very, very, very, very long way away."

"Your mom."

"Arkthemaniac said:

"Blood.

Didn't think of THAT, did you? I beat the system.

I think I could fairly easily do without most things in my life."

Are you a vampire?"

"DanCarmichael said:

"

WILSON!

"

only time i have ever cried in a movie that was awful, and this thread is the best on this site"

"Nicotine or the Internet, or maybe sex..."

"AaronBelfast said:

"This thread had potential until a certain few hijacked it :("

no dude, solid snake started it. there was never any potential."

Aw deleted :(