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How will our universe end?
we've all heard about the Big Bang and I am really sad that the series has ended well here of course I'm talking about the Big Bang that actually started everything again most people have heard of that but what do you know about the Big Crunch and now I'm not talking about some random candy bar while most scientists believe that our universe began with a massive burst of energy opinions remain divided about how everything will one day come to an end there's a range of theories such as the big fries and the big rip but the one that's considered to be the most likely scenario is the Big Crunch so what is the Big Crunch but the Big Crunch Theory has its roots in Einstein's theory of general relativity everything in life follows an ebb and flow when one event occurs the reverse is likely to occur after hitting the extreme if the Big Bang causes the expansion of the universe then eventually the opposite will become true once the universe has reached its largest size and as determined by the amount of energy that's present it will begin to be collapsed in on itself and in the end form a massive black hole that contains all matter due to the conditions that are present in the singularity of the size everything will be squashed down to a miniscule size which is why it's called the Big Crunch so probably not great news for all those of you who are a class or for bacon and tend to live billions of years well here's the good news while the math suggests that the Big Crunch is possible and even probable there's a problem for those who dedicate their careers to understanding questions like this we don't yet fully comprehending everything in a universe and there are a couple of unknowns that will affect our ultimate fate first the universe's expansion appears to be the interplay of two factors density and outward momentum density has a direct correlation to the amount of gravity that is present so the denser the universe is the more gravitational forces that take place this on its own would mean that everything will eventually gravitate towards everything else and the final Big Crunch becomes an inevitability although there's no friction in space the effect of gravity would be more than enough to counteract the initial outward momentum caused by the Big Bang and all matter what essentially returned to where come from the problem with this though is that observations of the universe have shown that things aren't behaving as simply as we would expect the outer reaches appear to be expanding at a faster rate than those closer to us and galaxies are actually moving further apart from each other scientists don't know why this is happening but they have given a name to this unknown entity dark energy this extra element in the expansion of the universe means that there are two potential outcomes it will either continue to expand forever and objects will be so far apart from each other that everything will freeze were we could still faced a Big Crunch the determining factor is how much dark energy are actually there if there is enough which some scientists believe could be the case then everything will continue to expand if there isn't enough though then the forces of gravity will once more eventually over comment and bring everything back together again some believe the seeming prevalence of dark energy could well signal the beginning of the Big Crunch however in a report released in 2015 it was suggested that the current increased rates of expansion is the last gasp of the expanding universe and that within tens of billions of years the contraction will begin so how would the Big Crunch happen if we assume that there isn't enough dark energy and that the Big Crunch does take place then it won't be as spectacular as the Big Bang was the universe will begin to contract evenly because matter is more or less distributed consistently it would be a slow process for what begin to gradually pick up in speed a
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