Death of the universe

[birminghamborn]

No big bang guys! it is now classified as 'expansion' the universe we think we know exploded to the size of a marble, ever since then it has expanded, how much further will it go or has gone without us knowing?

We know nothing!

Had to be a big bang,to set it all in motion and yes it is still expanding.

Think of all the matter in the Cosmos and the order of it all, it blows your mind, someone had write the blueprint for it all to work.

[TrianonDave]

Dark matter, what's that all about? i mean we hear theories suggesting this stuff holds everything together but just what is it and how does it hold all these planets and stars in such an accurate position while allowing them to rotate!
Why not just ping and crash in to each other like a break at snooker?

Don't get it but fascinated by it all !!!

And just how big or small are we really, are we just the size of an atom or super massive? as time goes on we will find out and just maybe we will find out something we do not want to know?

[Balanbam00]

"Had to be a big bang,to set it all in motion "

There had to be forces acting on matter, (gases).

Perhaps we should be asking not how, but why it all came into being?

[birminghamborn]

Why is a big question, almost as big as How.

[ozfan]

How and why are the biggest questions but I think how trumps why.

How do you get a big bang from what was originally nothing but a black vacuum of emptiness.

To make a bang you need explosive ingredients and a reaction to release the stored energy. Now let's just think of the energy needed to creates such an explosion which birthed the universe on such a huge scale? You can't just produce gases from absolutely nothing.

I'm starting to give much more credence to the idea of the birth and death of the universe being its self a part of a grand cycle.

But even if that is true and the age of everything is trillions of years there still had to have been a beginning. A time when there was nothing.

It's truly mind boggling.

[Balanbam00]

As you say its truly mind boggling.

But logic and reason can not answer this question

Science can not give answers only philosophy can 'speculate.

Its beyond the mind ! :-)

[Balanbam00]

Oz, respect to you.

I take the why, why?

Science tells us about 'how', philosophy tells us about why!

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4. Maths a department of science.

Can science tell us the root cause? No, it has no answers.
Philosophy also can not give us answers,its speculation.

But its all beyond the mind !! A great mystery!