• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    At some point wouldn’t gravity override the expansion and cause a contraction again?

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      1 year ago

      Last I checked, the “Big Crunch” hypothesis got rejected by scientists.

      I am no expert, so can’t elaborate any further.

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      1 year ago

      Heres a great source

      It explains why the universe will have a cold death instead of a heat death.

      Right now the universe is expanding and its expanding faster today than yesterday. Things could change, but current math points to a cold death

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        1 year ago

        I always interpreted “heat death” as “the death of heat” instead of “a hot death”

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          You are correct and I misremembered it. “The Big Freeze” and “Heat Death” are the same thing. Thats when everything expands until there is no more heat.

          If someone knows the correct terms for what I am talking about please let me know. Let me explain further.

          What I am talking about is the opposite of heat death, which is somehow in my mind at a hot death? Basically, where everything goes back to one singularity instead of expanding forever.