How do you want the Universe to end?

[Liberty4eva]

How do you want the Universe to end? Not how you think the Universe will end. And I'm ignoring all religious nonsense on this question. To my knowledge, scientists have proposed three theories of how the universe will end: The Big Crunch, The Big Freeze, and The Big Rip.

The Big Crunch: where the universe begins to contract on itself due to the universe having a sufficient amount of mass. Eventually, everything collapses in on itself to a size less than the period at the end of this sentence. Hence, the name "Big Crunch" and it's sometimes called death by fire. A gif of this event:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Big_Crunch.gif

The Big Freeze: where the universe will continue to expand forever and ever until all the stars will have died out. After that, all the dead stars, planets and even black holes will decay over trillions and zillions of years until it's just a sea of elementary particles floating around. This is sometimes called death by ice.

The Big Rip: Similar to The Big Freeze except the universe will continue to expand at a faster and faster rate until everything, galaxies, stars, planets, atoms, get's torn apart and the fabric of space is destroyed. This seems to me to be the most badass way of going out.

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So of the three theories which way would you like the Universe to end?

[Marc]

Freeze! We can all be found later on by a new generation of people.

[Jordan.]

The GIF one

[BBfanUSA]

Big Rip Sounds so badass

[ILoveTRW]

Freeze! We can all be found later on by a new generation of people.

hmm, no, it doesn't work like that.

I like the idea of a closed universe, the ultimate circle of life.

[GypsyGoth]

The Big Freeze, it's kinda romantic.

[Jords]

The Big Crunch so we have a Big Bounce :evilgrin:

[Sticks]

According to observations from Chandra it looks like the Big Rip is off the agenda (See here) (http://www.universetoday.com/22382/no-big-rip-in-our-future-chandra-provides-insights-into-dark-energy/)

Current observations also show that even with dark matter there is insufficient mass for the the universe to collapse in on itself. The fact that the universe continues to expand and the rate of expansion is increasing, the Big Crunch does not look like it will happen either

The only one left, that conforms to the rules of physics is the Big Chill, as this ties in with the second law of thermodynamics and the increase in entropy leading to what physicists call The Heat Death of the Universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe)

Let Brian Cox explain a bit more about the second law and entropy

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[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

idc about the universe but planet earth; zombie apocalypse plz

[Novo]

The Big Friendly Giant sounds good to me

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[Jesus.]

Our galaxy is on a collision course with Andromeda so that's ultimately how it will all end. Life will be long gone before it happens, but it will still bust **** up.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Freeze! We can all be found later on by a new generation of people.

But how will there be life formed if there's no stars?? (all the elements needed for human existence are formed in stars, well at least thats what i learnt in Physics like last month lol)
Unless the big bang happens all over again :hugesmile:

[Niall]

The rip plz.

[Sticks]

The latest research has eliminated the Big Rip, sorry

[King Gizzard]

Quickly

[lostalex]

It's not gonna happen in our lifetime, so i don't give a fook!

I have nothing but contempt for this planet.

[arista]

To Far Ahead

I mean before then well off Earth People will move to other planets
With AsdaWalmart Food Domes that will grow Hi Tech veg under low lights.

[Bollo]

I want V.I.P tickets to the restaurant at the end of the universe

[waterhog]

i would like to read one of my big brother poems to the world and them all pass out.

[Patrick]

I would like a massive Best Bits Package to end the universe.

[Livia]

Surley one of the stranger threads on "serious datbates".