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How Will Our Universe End?

Big Bang theory

By françoise doumeyPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

The Big Crunch theory is a range of theories about how our universe will eventually end. Some believe that the universe began with a huge burst of energy, while others believe that it will come to an end with a “big rip”.Whichever theory happens to be correct, it has its roots in one of Einstein’s most famous theories – General Relativity. Everything in life follows an ebb and flow, so when one event occurs the opposite is likely to follow after hitting the extreme. If the Big Bang caused the expansion of the universe, then eventually it will reach its largest size and collapse into a massive black hole. In the end, this would form one giant “soup” of all matter and energy.

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of billions of years the contraction

will begin so how would the Big Crunch

happen if we assume that there isn't

enough dark energy and that the Big

Crunch does take place then it won't be

as spectacular as the Big Bang was the

universe will begin to contract evenly

because matter is more or less

distributed consistently it would be a

slow process for what begin to gradually

pick up in speed as galaxies got closer

to one another and the forces of gravity

have more of an effect in about a

hundred billion years from now as things

reach and climax

temperatures would significantly

increase in this will result in stars

exploding and in vaporizing and all

objects will be broken down into their

constituent atoms which themselves will

begin to break apart in the final stages

as all matter from the universe compacts

into a small space things will become

extremely chaotic so much so that some

predictions suggest as space-time will

become so warped that it would shatter

into droplets meaning all concepts of

time

distance and a direction would become

meaningless

of course no living organism would have

been able to survive to this point in we

would have all been doomed a long time

before this so with our lack of full

understanding of the process taking

place in the universe it's impossible to

know for sure how everything will end

one of the scenario is the Big Crunch

which will see every piece of the matter

returning to where it originated in and

all that will remain to be an

unimaginably large black hole what

happens at that point really is anyone's

guess and it could potentially see the

birth of a new universe it's also

possible that this has all happened a

number of times already and we're alive

in just another in a long line of

cyclical expansions and contractions

again only those of you who's planning

to be alive for billions of years will

really have to worry about this

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