Our universe has eternal life, or will it eventually die?
2007-07-10 04:26:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Cold Death...
The Universe is expanding... but more than that the rate of expansion is increasing. ... Thus The Big Crunch has been all but ruled out and expansion will continue past the time when all nuclear fuel is expended. ... Thus all stars will eventually die and all life with them... No exceptions. ... Frigid rubble, dust and dead planets at absolute zero is what is in store for the distant future.
[ Current thought... ]
2007-07-10 04:28:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Second Law of Thermodynamics points to the universe eventually turning into a cold, empty void peppered with ash. Whatever happens to matter when it goes into black holes will shred much of the fabric of spacetime but there isn't enough mass in the universe to collapse every black hole into each other and pull the edges of the universe back into a singularity. It's already expanded too far and too fast. So the universe will eventually die when the last atom runs to a standstill at -273°C (0°K). Then it will stay that way.
That's the current theory at any rate.
2007-07-10 04:40:05 · answer #2 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't think the universe is alive. It can't, therefore, die.
I don't really have any idea about the potential "end" of the universe. I think that it is most logical to assume that the energy of the universe is as close to "eternal" as anything is. It will probably change (shrink back upon itself, "explode" again, etc.), but I don't know that it will end. If the universe ends, there can be no time, and therefore even the concept of "nothing" doesn't matter.
I've given myself a headache thinking about that...
2007-07-10 04:40:01 · answer #3 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks like it will eventually collapse back in on itself. I read somewhere that the rate of expansion doesn't appear to be enough to overcome the gravitational pull, and it will eventually collapse back in on itself.
Don't worry, you've got a few billion years yet before that happens. Besides, the sun will go nova before then, and wipe us off the planet.
2007-07-10 04:33:02 · answer #4 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. The universe changes form in an infinite cycle. As far as I know anyway.
2007-07-10 04:30:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What will die, the universe or the life?
The universe, no....the life, yes.
2007-07-10 04:30:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is a bit harsh. If you answer this question you're an atheist. But well, I'm not, just saying.
I think the universe would only end if God wants it to happen.
We don't know more. =D
2007-07-10 04:39:19 · answer #7 · answered by Simon 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Current experimental evidence is that it will suffer a cold death. Whta this means is that it will expand and cool until energy is evenly spread throughout, at which stage nothing will ever happen again.
2007-07-10 05:00:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Current thinking is that it will go on for ever.
However, since it is about 14.5 billion years old, and we have been seriously observing it for about 100 years, that is about 0.0000007% of it's existance.
I do not think that we really have enough knowledge to say with any level of confidence.
2007-07-10 04:33:33 · answer #9 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well we don't know. That is what makes life worth living that is that we question things. If we knew all the answers to everything then life will be boring and worthless.
2007-07-10 04:32:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋