i think the big bang is the beginning and the end of everything?
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Very good.  You are close to the truth.\n\nSpace alternately expands and contracts over a two billion year cycle.\n\nWe are now nearing the end of the expansionary phase.  So all the scientists on primitive planets hypothesize a big bang and talk about red shift.\n\nIn the following phase, scientists on other primitive planets will hypotehsize a fiery, incandescent end in the middle of everything and talk a lot about blue shifts.\n\nThe reasons for this have to do with the benefits of dynamic equilibrium.  Static would not work.  Apparently God already knows about this, but so do some physicists.\n\nSoem Dutch guy named DeSitter was also close, I have heard.
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The big bang was the starting point of time and the universe, and I think there is enough corroborating evidence to show that it is most likely true.
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Any cosmologist will tell you that there is NO center to our universe. Assuming that the Big Bang didn't happen inside some "thing" else--and there's not a shred of evidence that such was the case--then we're forced to say that the Big Bang happened everywhere at once; before it there was no 'where' or anything else.
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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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Probably like it started, with a BIG BANG.
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Yes. The universe is constantly expanding. It is possible we are all being sucked into a massive black hole, far far outside the reaches of our universe which would account for the the expansion of our universe. Additionally, the best competing theory for the start of the universe is the big bang , where everything expands out of one tiny point. It is reasonable to think that the universe could end in the opposite way - The Big Suck, where we get pulled into a massive black hole, just like the one you describe. So yes, I think it's very possible.
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Milliways?\n\nAnyhoo...\n\nExcuse the geek humor.  It depends on what you mean by the end of space.  If you mean the destruction of the universe, there's a lot of theories out there.  If you mean the physical edges of the universe, there is nothing, no vacuum.  The universe is all that exists, there is nothing outside it.  It's a difficult concept to visualize sometimes.\n\nSome end-of-the-universe theories include the big crunch where the outward movement of the universe reverses itself and returns to a common origin; the opposite of the big bang.  Opposite of the big crunch is the quiet freeze, where the universe keeps expanding, planets drift so far away from each other, entropy takes control, all energy is slowly expended and the universe drifts into a quiet soft end.  Those two theories depend on the cosmological constant.\n\nThere's also a theory where many of our cosmological constants which define the laws of physics and allow for the universe to exist could change and matter simply crumbles at its most basic level (even quarks, which are base atom components, would fall apart).  Another somewhat worrying theory is that physicist working in supercolliders could set off a quantum vacuum collapses, this off course assumes that the quantum vacuum is not at is lowest stable state which is unlikely.\n\nOne of my favorite theories is the result of M-theory, otherwise known as Brane theory.  Brane theory suggests that the laws our universe is governed by a "membrane" created from supersmall (Planck length, 10^-35 meters) one-dimensional strings.  It's easiest to think of the piano, music is created but is not tangible, it is created from vibration of strings.  The way this membrane is folded creates the laws and constants that govern our universe.  There could be, literally millions of membranes and millions of universes.  The theory goes onto suggest that our universe was created from the collision of two membranes; and so too could it end that way.\n\nThere's a lot of different theories, if you're interested in end-of-the-world/end-of-the-universe theories I'd recommend you visit Exit Mundi, linked below.
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No one knows if there is an end of the universe. Remember the "Big Bang Theory" is, of course, just a theory. However, I think the universe may be growing into something, just like diffusion. The universe is growing into a space that no human mind is or will be able to comprehend until we create technology great enough to get out of our galaxy, out of our universe, and into something more. Something so far, far away that we most likely will not have enough technology to get to in our lifetimes or in many generations to come. It will probably take hundreds of years for humans to travel to another galaxy and back safely, but probably thousand to millions of years, if the human race still exists, for us to get farther - into something more, the land beyond.
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this is actually a common misconception about the big bang.  the universe may be something like the two dimensional surface of a sphere.  it is finite yet has no boundary and no center.  nothing exists "outside" the universe.  to quote a dead writer, "there is no there, there".\n\nread this:\nhttp://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147
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Everything that has a beginning has an end. - The Matrix.\n\nThe only questions are when and how.  The rest is just details.
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The Big Bang theory is a scientific theory in cosmology, initially suggested by Georges Lemaitre. It is essentially the most widely accepted theory about the universe's origin. \n\nThe idea is that the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago (current estimate ~13.5 billion) from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter in all directions. Before that point all matter was concentrated at an infinitessimal point, known as a singularity. \n\nThe idea was most strongly propounded after the astronomer Edwin Hubble (after whom the famous telescope is named) found in 1929 that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance, suggesting at some point they were all at a single point. The theory also predicted the existence of a cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). and received widespread acceptance when this radiation was actually discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in the 1960s.
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well... tough question. it is said that the beginning of time was the Big Bang. if the Big Bang was produced in the center of the Universe, there must be the origin of time.
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I think God is the Big Bang.
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The Big Bang didn't happen in a place.  Space and time were created in the big bang. The Big Bang is a theory to explain universal/spatial expansion. \n\nI think it's easiest to look at the idea this way. Scientists have observed that everything past our local galactic cluster seems to be retreating from us. All observations point to the universe being infinite and roughly uniform in all directions. \n\nIf it's expanding at given rate now, chances are it's slowed down. Go back in time, the universe was denser and expanding faster. Rewind the timeline far enough and you'll come to a period when everything was all bunched together in a massive, undiscernable clump. Then, suddenly, Bang!!! Space! And everything in it... which has been spreading out and slowing down (pretty much) ever since. \n\nTry thinking about it like the air expaning in bread as it rises, or in a balloon as it fills. Everything is moving apart from everything. Only the universe has been infinitely large from the get go. It's almost like someone just keeps adding empty space in between everything.\n\nIf it helps at all, the center of the big bang for the visible universe was the same place the center of the visible universe always is. Wherever you are. From that point, everything you can see was at some moment in the past gethered together in a lump with infinite density.
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I think space is the container for the matter which makes up everything.  I also think there is more than one container which could potentially be parallel dimensions or other worlds with differenet physical rules.  I think the path to these other worlds lies in what is known as a black hole.  They say the universe is infinite so maybe there are an infinite number of containers which would mean they would never run out and have always existed.  Also, time may not me restriced to how we view it.  Our lives may be just a blink to other worlds or almost infinite to others.  There is no possible way to explain it definately, it is all speculation and beliefs.  One way to expalin it is with religion, but what is religion?  A belief in a greater being with absolute control? Or the belief that the "big bang" theory exists?  They are one in the same a belief nothing more.
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First of all, try not to think of the Big Bang as an "explosion." An explosion happens inside something else and has a center. As far as is known by the best scientists around, the Big Bang didn't happen inside any 'thing' else, and it has no center.  All this also means that you can't speak of a "large empty region" either because the concept of 'large' only makes sense when compared to something else. If you're still with me, then understand that only at the first instant of the Big Bang was there any "empty region" at all (called 'space'), and that began expanding. Today that expansion has reached outward some 13.7-billion light years.
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The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions. \nIn 1927, the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom. His proposal came after observing the red shift in distant nebulas by astronomers to a model of the universe based on relativity. Years later, Edwin Hubble found experimental evidence to help justify Lemaître's theory. He found that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance. \n\nThe big bang was initially suggested because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds. The theory also predicts the existence of cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). The Big Bang Theory received its strongest confirmation when this radiation was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who later won the Nobel Prize for this discovery. \n\nAlthough the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.