Ahhh well, thats it so Chris, its all over. The whole lot is going to end up as one giant, cold, baron wasteland.

Lets look on the bright side of things, it will be fun while it lasts.

John.

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Twinkle twinkle little star
Thou shall not end with a bang but with a whimper
(poet unknown)

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I might be wrong, but I think there needs to be a gnab gib before the next big bang.

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Janice

I saw a show a week or so ago, where they think the big bang may occur every few trillion years. It was using M-Theory, and suggested that the two branes would touch, and therefore deform with the result being what we know today. They said that the universe first came into being, then expanded. The rate of expansion is still increasing. Eventually the stars will die out, leaving red dwarfs in a period called the degenerative period. Eventually, everything would be absorbed into black holes in 10^100 years, which would evaporate back into the branes. The problem with this is that it would take much longer than a few trillion years.

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

Can I sell tickets to that?

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Janice

It is probably useful to remember that things like super-strings and m-branes don't actually exist. They are similes and metaphors used to help the mathematics make visual sense to the limitations of the human mind.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Are there no proponents of the Many Universes theory ?

Seriously though, Another large universe out past the event horizon or hiding next door in another folded up dimension could explain the accelerating expansion due to simple gravity.

Perhaps we do need to add another force to our list of four--the force due to the energy of the vacuum.

People are beginning to put in doubt the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and propose instead the de Broglie-Bohm theory. So no multiple universes. See QuantumFIRE@home.
Tullio

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So long as no one accuses me of causing that Big Bang thing. I mean, no one saw me do it right?

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Janice

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

- Douglas Adams

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein