Only 10-20 Billion Years To Go

cinorhc writes "An article at Space Flight Now reports on a study of some Stanford researchers that say the universe will collapse in on itself in a mere 10-20 billion years, resulting in "the Big Crunch". That puts us in the middle of the uni's life cycle. The generally accepted theory as of now is the universe will expand forever, leaving isolated galaxies all alone in a nearly infinite sea of darkness. If these guys are right, we should see galaxies blue shift any day now. I personally prefer a universe that will collapse in on itself and then re-Big Bang so to speak, circle of life on a grand scale."

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Just another in a series

[photon317]

In a few years a different theory will emerge, ad infinitum. Astrophysics is a black art at this stage. It's important that we pursue it, but we all know that the "current theories" are just working models to help us along, they're almost always disproved and new models are born. It will be along time before we settle into a model that we can believe with some degree of certainty.

Whatever......

[jeramybsmith]

Hawking and others have allowed for the presence of God in cosmology. Why is it that some people have a problem reconciling cosmology with their God? Did God create the universe with a big bang? Perhaps.... Why don't we observe the universe together and see instead of digging in and rejecting these ideas outright.

I just don't understand people who say that they believe in a God who created the universe but close their ears against any attempt to see how he did so.