2007-07-28 15:34:52 · 11 answers · asked by Third P 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If you go to the NASA web site, you can see that at the center of our universe is a black hole. All the stars and planets are spiraling around it.
It doesn't take a leap of imagination to realize that is where we are going.
check it out:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060810.html
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2007-07-28 15:38:08 · answer #1 · answered by Lu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course the universe will exist forever ... but not unchanged. It is made up of elements and those elements are basic to all things ...
The structure of the universe may disappear but it's ingredients and components will live on ... as what?
2007-07-28 22:43:19 · answer #2 · answered by BigBadBoo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt our universe will continue existing forever. My guess is that it collapses and a new universe is created, possibly like our own.
2007-07-29 11:39:20 · answer #3 · answered by Skip Residue 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first answerer is referring to our Galaxy, not the universe. But anyway, all we can see are the galaxies accelerating away from us. In a trillion upon a trillion years, we won't be able to see any galaxies, they'd be too far away. (btw, when i say 'we', i mean the theoretical 'we'....afterall, we'll be long gone). Our galaxy will be cast adrift in a see of blackness, being consumed by our own black hole......
2007-07-29 01:13:10 · answer #4 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the earth (like every pointless planet out there) will collapse or explode eventually. Maybe the universe. But I don't see Earth happening.
2007-07-28 22:39:15 · answer #5 · answered by Jane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Matter is eternal; it is indestructible. It can change it's forms, it can be reduced to it constituent sub-atomic particles but it cannot cease to exist. Something has always existed and will continue to do so.
2007-07-29 08:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Wizard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's past the rim of the universe is of far more interest to me. Expand, contract, live, die, the universe doesn't interest me all that much.
2007-07-28 23:13:43 · answer #7 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My notion for the Finite is limited to objects or things. For Time I have no facts to conceptualize an end for it.
2007-07-28 22:40:31 · answer #8 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-07-28 22:45:40 · answer #9 · answered by IslandOfApples 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably, i think. i mean, by the time we're gone, there will be thousands of years after us. but our solar system will be gone in some thousands (or is it millions, billions?) of years, because our sun will finally "go out", or whatever, and we can't live without the sun.
2007-07-28 22:40:40 · answer #10 · answered by iheartbooks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋