Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Science
In reply to the discussion: What if the universe had no beginning? [View all]JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)52. I've wondered about a constantly expanding and contracting universe.
My mother told me when I was young that the universe went on forever. I would ask "what's beyond that?" "More universe".
We see a universe that is expanding from The Big Bang, yet we also see galaxies created by that Big Bang collapsing into massive black holes. What if those masses eat up entire galaxies and attract other nearby systems into an even more massive black hole until everything in the observed universe comes down to one or more unstable masses with atoms crushed beyond physical limits until.... Bang! It all starts again.
No beginning or end, just as it should be.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
89 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Asserting that there exists "atoms" that are the smallest possible expression of....
LudwigPastorius
Oct 2021
#14
I personally am not eager to do away with the Big Bang Theory in favor of mathematical harmony.
NH Ethylene
Oct 2021
#70
Just as GR "replaced" Newtonian gravitation for massive objects / highly curved spacetime,
VWolf
Oct 2021
#31
I'm just the opposite. I've always thought that infinity was the one true reality
Walleye
Oct 2021
#27
Does not explain why the universe does not look similar to todays as we peer further
cstanleytech
Oct 2021
#58