Why sHould the Universe degrade(burn out)
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Homogenous Universe\n\nAll observations scientists have made using the most powerful telescopes show that the universe looks the same in all directions! \n\nThe average density of galaxies is the same and does not change with distance or direction. \n\nThis shows that the universe is  homogenous, and this is called the Cosmological Principle.\n\nHomogeneous (usually pronounced: homo-GEEN-ee-us) means literally, to be the same throughout, no matter where you are in the universe. "If you look at the universe from earth or from a galaxy a million lightyears away, it will look the same." \n\nLOOK at IMAGE: http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/121/unv2pv.png
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There is one thing you can be sure of.... that is that every thing changes. It's the law of the universe! So if things are going bad, just ride it out because it has to change. And if things are going good, suck up every moment and enjoy. You have to have the bad to appreciate the good!
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The universe is still expanding and speeding up, faster and faster.  The outskirts of the universe can boggle the mind.  It has been thought that the mass of the universe would eventually stop the outward push and eventually draw it back to implode in on itself, then repeat.  Like a thirty billion year old flower.  Now it is believed that the universe will die a cold death with the universe continually speeding off in all directions.  Maybe we will run into another universe that is moving towards our own.  And no we will not fall off a cliff, the universe is expanding at a uniform rate in ALL directions.  There will be no drop-offs...
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I believe in a comparitively new but very popular theory that Universe creation and destruction are cyclic in nature. Its like the BIG BANG, then BIG CRUNCH, then BIG BANG again and so on.... The energy for the newest big bang event (the one studied by Edwin Hubble), came from the previous big crunch.  The Cosmic Microwave Background, when studied suggests that the radiation at the denser parts of the universe are heavily red shifted. This is an evidence in support of energy being 'old'.
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all the energy that is in the universe came from the Big Bang and the universe today is expanding, though a lot slower than before.\n\nHow do we know this? Astronomers have been using spectrometers to chart the temperature from the center of the universe onwards. As you may already know, the farther we look into space, the farther back in time we are looking. What we found, astonishingly, is that the temperature of the universe was hotter before and is slowly reducing. \n\nRight now the temperature is 3 Kelvin (-270 degrees Celsius) in deep space (deep space defined as one atom per cubic kilometer). It shows that energy is continually dissipating, leading to the expansion of the universe, which is leading to a slow decrease in temperature. So there is overwhelming evidence stating that all energy in universe came from the Big Bang and is contained.
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the same thing thats on this side. new matter is not being formed it is just expanding from the force of the big bang all those millions of years ago. Some scientists say the expansion will eventually stop and the universe will collapse onto itself, and then maybe explode again. All theories so in effect we dont know.
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If all matter is over 90% empty space, then there should theoretically be small vacuums throughout the entire universe.  However, such a vacuum would be impossible to detect, contain, or sustain.\n\nPerhaps beyond the edge of the universe, a perfect vacuum exists.  All the matter/energy ever can only take up so much space.  However, there is no way to observe or reach that vacuum either.\n\nMmmm... uncertainty!
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Attempting to do so will cause a rip in the time/space continuium...
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I have indeed considered this. The problem is scientific observation has not agreed with the concept of random quantum mechanics created all the matter in the universe.\n\nThe problem with this idea is how do you explain massive concentrations of matter like Suns. if you want to say random particles colided together and created the massive volume that is a sun then fine. How long would such a thing take? With all the suns in our Galaxy alone how is that possible especially considering you only have about a billion year window before most of your stars start dieing off their is simply too much matter.\n\nWhat is far more likely is the Big Bang. The reason I say this is because of two critical observations. The fact that distant Galaxy's are moving away from us at a constant rate or what is called red shift. If the Universe was formed by random particles why is their a constant drift from a center point? \n\nThe second point is because of what is called cosmic radiation. The theory put out was if at one time the universe was smaller and hotter then their would be cosmic radiation and space would be about 2-4 Kelvin and that's exactly what we found. If what you are saying is true then the temperature of the universe should be at absolute zero.\n\nIf you wish I could recommend some books on the subject.
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The world system as you know it will end with fire. It will burn up. In other words it will be recycled just as anything is that is burned with fire, changed and put to another use.\n\nIs that simple enough. When, only God knows. \n\nThe nice thing is you do not have to worry about it because there is a way out for you. Read a bible in your native tongue and find the answer. If you can not email me. cjkeysjr@yahoo.com.ph and I will give you my opinion as simple as I can in such a way a little child can understand. That is a promise. \n\nAfter that the rest is up to you to do or not do OK.
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It resulted from the big bang. Time and space and matter and energy all started then. What existed before and why it occurred is for the philosophers to ponder. I'm content with the fact that we don't know everything right now. We might someday though.
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Here's the flaw in your logic. You think that the universe has to be in something else to expand. The Universe is literally being created more and more. By this I mean the volume of real estate in reality is growing. There doesn't have to be something else that it's growing within. It sets it's own barriers and those barriers mark the current circumference of existence.\nBy the way, science does not respect theories. It respects laws.
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It's better to burn out than to fade away.\n\nAlways reach for the moon- even if you miss, you'll land between the stars.\n\nAlways bite off more than you can chew then chew like crazy.\n\nIf you keep cutting corners, you'll end up going in circles.\n\nWhen you point you finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at yourself.\n\nA friend is someone you can drink with who will ALWAYS forgive you in the morning.\n\nRemember that life is for living- there's plenty of time to be dead.\n\nIt takes more muscles to frown than to smile.\n\nLaughter is the best medicine.\n\nAnd finally, from the man himself:\n\nI wasn't born with enough middle fingers.\n\nI'll lift you up like the sweetest angel, I'll tear you down like a whore...
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No, because a black hole is a collapsed star, and the closest star to us, besides the sun, is thousands of light years away. They also suck in EVERYTHING including light and destroys it.
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Earth can't be hell because it is not eternal torment. We do not spend close to eternity here only 80 years +/- and even when life sucks, there are times that are good. You're mom has wishful thinking. It can be so so SO much worse and for a whole lot longer.
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It's a cycle of death and rebirth. A star will eventually go supernova, explode, and create stardust. These elements condense over millions of years to form a new star and new planets. This simple fact leads many scientists to the conclusion that a higher being must exist since it seems so neat and convenient to be just random chance. It seems like too useful a cycle, in other words. Like it was designed as such.
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My idea of the end of the earth is the proven scientific theory: Increase in the Entrophy of the Universe, which basicly means that the entrophy of the universe(which is the randomness of the atoms/molecules/matter in the universe) will produce so much heat that eventually the universe will become so hat that all solid and liquids will vaporize and become plasma. Also, according to the current theories as to the origin of matter, The matter was produced when a massive amount of energy from a vacuum luctuation, which is a extremely extremely rapid production of a virtual particle from energy in a vacuum and then the almost immediate destruction of it and reabsorbtion of the energy by the vaccum, was converted into matter using einsteins formula E=MC^2 or in this case you would solve for M getting M=C^2/E which then expanded rapidly\nwhich we know as the big bang and eventually through evolution we were formed.