2007-01-23 01:24:42 · 18 answers · asked by kunversita 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Current theory is that it will continue to expand forever. Eventually, hundreds of billions of years from now, all of the stars will burn out and the Universe will experience heat death.
Even further on, eventually all protons will decay and there will be no matter left.
2007-01-23 01:46:35 · answer #1 · answered by gebobs 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It will fade out of existence some time in the future.
Having a universe to theorize on it"s beginning is difficult enough but trying to imagine the end is much more difficult.
It is a finite entity so it must come to an end.
Some look to black holes,but I think an unlikely place to look may be the neutron star.
It has great possibilities for being the key element in the demise of the universe.
2007-01-23 13:18:45 · answer #2 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Universe will not end. In like 15 billion years, the Universe will reach 0 kelvin and all matter will stop moving. Protons and neutrons will brake down.
2007-01-23 10:06:27 · answer #3 · answered by bldudas 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Entropy, the measure of randomness in a system, always increases. Think of dissolving a sugar cube in water. The sugar goes from well ordered (in the cube) to random (dissolved in the water). From this we could say the Universe will end when everything is uniformly dispersed, and there are no more distinctions between matter and space. Also, since matter is energy, the end state could be a uniform glow.
2007-01-23 09:33:34 · answer #4 · answered by AaronX 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The same way it began, with a VERY BIG BANG!!! The matter of the universe is and has been for a very, very long time been expanding outward. At some point, it will start to contract back in on itself until it compresses all the matter so tight that... BOOM!!! Another big bang, another universe, and another being will be sitting down in front of their version of a computer asking this exact thing...
2007-01-23 09:30:33 · answer #5 · answered by doctor_76 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe with a Big Bang as many think it started. I personally think, mind you, that it is here for the purpose of sustaining life. At least we know that earth does. I also think the universe is for us to discover. Will it end? No I doubt it.
2007-01-23 09:32:46 · answer #6 · answered by mc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably as it started: with a bang. Scientists say that the universe is expanding all the time and theoretically, it will reach a point when it will become smaller until its the size of a football. And then it will explode once again to form a new uinverse.
2007-01-23 09:31:16 · answer #7 · answered by clotho 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It will continue to expand and eventually (10^66 years) all protons will decay adn the universe will be a cold dark place.
2007-01-23 09:36:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
One nuke go's off hear, causing us to nuke, then the surounding countries nuke, world war with nukes. They have bombs in this world that can take out half the world. The USA can make bombs strong enough to nuke the whole earth up 3 times. Of course we can somewhat control how big a bombs destruction can be but he if two or three countries use them at the same time we are all dead from radiation.
2007-01-23 09:32:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot
2007-01-23 17:30:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋