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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: booters who wrote (414)	8/13/2000 6:55:07 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Even if the energy from the explosion, let's say ran out, and all the movement stopped, you would still have gravity pulling it all back together. There is much to learn, but it appears from the available evidence that the universe is spreading too rapidly for gravity to pull it all together again. That is to say it will spead out forever becoming cold & dark. To a certain extent this universe has only been seriously studied for a few hundred years, I think we will know much more after another million years. Scientists and astronomers used to assume that the universe would fall back onto itself. It was assumed that whatever blew up making the big bang was precisely the right size to eventually pull it together. This intuition is so far not supported by the facts. It could be that a great deal of the energy of the big bang got directed "outside" our universe and did not leave enough behind for the final crunch. It may be that half the energy went into a parallel anti-universe in which case our universe and the anti-universe may attract each other for a great annihilation. It pays to have a flexible mind on this subject because there is still a lot more to learn. TP