[Jeremy Fowler]

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
it were. String theorists believe our universe is one of infinite other
universes that blink in and out of existence like a bubble in a sea of other
bubbles. In fact one theory is that once the wall of one of these bubble
universes comes into contact with another bubble universe, it creates a
whole new universe and that is how our universe was created some
13.7billion years ago.

On 9/12/07, Joe Fish <reverend.joe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No, I can't, that was my point.
>
> I've read that there is conjecture that there may be conditions where it
> does not -- such as before the big bang, during a "Big Crunch".
>
> In other words, assuming the Universe existed before The Big Bang, there
> had to exist some means of getting the universe to the state it was at the
> beginning of The Big Crunch -- and if the universe that existed sometime
> before that event was like ours (ie, always INCREASING in entropy), then
> there are those that philosophize that there must be some conditions in
> which that "old" universe went from a state of higher entropy (like our
> universe now) to a state of lower entropy, or higher "order", ie, the
> perfectly-ordered universe that consisted of all matter and energy at on
> millionth of a pinpoint spot and the rest of all space-time consisting of
> utter nothingness.
>
> As I said, this is more a matter for quantum physicists and philosophers
> (I sometime wonder if there is a difference ... ;^) than it is for me.
>
> As an engineer, I consider the 2nd Law to be just that ... a LAW.
>
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