The Universe is expanding, rapidly from the big bang still. At some point, it will slow down, and then stop. Then begins a catastrophic cycle of collapse with massive black holes coalescing into one universe eating black hole that compresses every bit of matter into a single point of almost infinite density. At this point the black hole destabilizes, and all of the stored energy is released in one colossal explosion. A Big Bang of sorts.
This question actually doesn’t make sense, it’s kind of a paradox in the same way the question of what happened before the Big bang is also strange in the sense that the universe and reality didn’t exist in a form with causality in effect.
So asking a “before” question in reference to “before” time even started is paradoxical in and of itself. Since “before” wasn’t even a concept in existence.
Which is why scientists don’t really worry about anything “before” the Big bang.
Where did the matter/energy for Big Bang come from? On that note, what is outside the border of the universe?
And then where did they matter and energy come from for that universe. It’s turtles all the way down…
Did you have a stroke while writing that?
Not a fan of Terry Pratchett I take it?
Doubt he even understands the beginnings of boot theory economics.
I proclaim you Grand WIZZARD And pray the wind always be at your back, and the luggage at your heels, but not too close to your heels.
Outside: there is a theory of other universes outside . Which would explain the increasing rate of expansion in place of dark energy
The Universe is expanding, rapidly from the big bang still. At some point, it will slow down, and then stop. Then begins a catastrophic cycle of collapse with massive black holes coalescing into one universe eating black hole that compresses every bit of matter into a single point of almost infinite density. At this point the black hole destabilizes, and all of the stored energy is released in one colossal explosion. A Big Bang of sorts.
The Universe is an Ouroboros.
Somehow I find the Big Crunch more comforting than Big Rip…
This question actually doesn’t make sense, it’s kind of a paradox in the same way the question of what happened before the Big bang is also strange in the sense that the universe and reality didn’t exist in a form with causality in effect.
So asking a “before” question in reference to “before” time even started is paradoxical in and of itself. Since “before” wasn’t even a concept in existence.
Which is why scientists don’t really worry about anything “before” the Big bang.