Lately, I have heard plenty about galaxies merging, and everyday, I hear new evidence of this perhaps having happened in the Universe's distant past. In recent years, Hubble has brought back pictures of this phenomena, and I for one am convinced that the Universe may in fact be slowly contracting in various parts while expanding in others according to the predictions of mainstream science supported red shift phenomena and other forms of evidence. The coming Andromeda - Milky Way collision is just one such prediction of a galaxy merger within our local group of galaxies, and it leaves me wondering if in fact such mergers are destined to occur in other parts of the Universe at around the same time or shortly afterwards in cosmic time. If so, is this indicative of the Big Crunch destined to compact our Universe into a sizeless, super-dense singularity? If so, can anyone provide me with the amount of time that the Universe may have left before such a cataclismic event.
2007-09-16
01:07:11
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Iron Fart Warrior Mk. 2
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