--- Jeremy Fowler jeremy.f76@gmail.com wrote:
The standing theory is that the universe will not collapse into itself, but rather infinitely expand until the other stars and galaxies will be so far away that the night sky will be completely black. A cold and lonely death as
Don't believe this PR plug. The Universe is collapsing. The end of the world is next week!
Seriously, though. this is really just a guess because we can't really measure the mass of the Universe accurately enough to say for sure. Some say it won't, others firmly believe it will. I'm hoping for it will, simply because I think we're missing something important. However, the facts as we know them do seem to support a slow cold death. Which is illogical, because if that is true, then what was before the Big Bang. I like theories to have a logical basis. An ever expanding Universe, until death, isn't logical ergo, it must be wrong somehow. Unless, the Universe has expanded and collapsed before, but each time with an Energy loss and we are now looking at the "Last Expansion". There, that's logical and obeys the Law of Conservation of Energy. See, back on Topic. Although how any of this is Linux related, beats me. Maybe someone could model this in a Linux Super Cluster?