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:
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.
So of the three theories which way would you like the Universe to end?
11-02-2012, 11:30 PM
How do you want the Universe to end?
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