19th July 2003, 4:32 PM
Since we have no evidence to support the idea of alternate realities, or time travel, it doesn't exist, or at least we have to act based on the idea it doesn't it exist. Thus, we have to work with what we got, which is a universe with an ultimate end.
Oh right, for those not in the know, something needs to be said. You may have heard back in grade school that there was a "pulsation theory" on the universe that theorized that our universe is constantly recompressing and big banging. I'm sorry to say that was prooven wrong. It seems that during any big bang, the universe is destined to spread and spread. Thus, there has only been one big bang, for if any happened before this, they also would have spread and spread. Sadly, there is a force called dark energy that seems to actually be stronger at larger distances. This force has been building and building as we get farther and farther from the rest of the universe's matter. Oddly enough, rather than slowing down since that legendary explosion, everything has been speeding up. The center is now very hard to determine, because this speeding up is always "away from all else" which could have affected direction. As things get farther and farther, they push harder and harder. Eventually, everything is pushed apart from itself. due to everything else hitting it with the distance energy. Everything is torn apart, and in the process, slowly pushes itself away from the rest of itself over a course of many years (billions isn't nearly anywhere near big enough a number here. billions are puny, billion is like a couple bigger than 10 in this case!, not even trillian, or quadrillion, but rather thousands of google (google is one of the largest numbers we have, not just a search engine) years from now, that's when this all happens). In fact, in the end all that will exist are smallest parts of atoms, like single protons (hydrogen that is), and atoms will be the size of star systems, well, in the space they take up, still the individual parts would be very small). And thus, this is how it all ends, not in a bang, but in a wimper, a wimper that can never ever come back together, but rather will just infinitly spread and get simpler and simpler. Nothing can ever combine, and thus nothing will ever evolve again. Behold the end and dispair!
Oh right, for those not in the know, something needs to be said. You may have heard back in grade school that there was a "pulsation theory" on the universe that theorized that our universe is constantly recompressing and big banging. I'm sorry to say that was prooven wrong. It seems that during any big bang, the universe is destined to spread and spread. Thus, there has only been one big bang, for if any happened before this, they also would have spread and spread. Sadly, there is a force called dark energy that seems to actually be stronger at larger distances. This force has been building and building as we get farther and farther from the rest of the universe's matter. Oddly enough, rather than slowing down since that legendary explosion, everything has been speeding up. The center is now very hard to determine, because this speeding up is always "away from all else" which could have affected direction. As things get farther and farther, they push harder and harder. Eventually, everything is pushed apart from itself. due to everything else hitting it with the distance energy. Everything is torn apart, and in the process, slowly pushes itself away from the rest of itself over a course of many years (billions isn't nearly anywhere near big enough a number here. billions are puny, billion is like a couple bigger than 10 in this case!, not even trillian, or quadrillion, but rather thousands of google (google is one of the largest numbers we have, not just a search engine) years from now, that's when this all happens). In fact, in the end all that will exist are smallest parts of atoms, like single protons (hydrogen that is), and atoms will be the size of star systems, well, in the space they take up, still the individual parts would be very small). And thus, this is how it all ends, not in a bang, but in a wimper, a wimper that can never ever come back together, but rather will just infinitly spread and get simpler and simpler. Nothing can ever combine, and thus nothing will ever evolve again. Behold the end and dispair!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)