Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by heimdall on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:39PM (#20118264)

The Big Bounce! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce

To me it's more satisfying than the idea of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by selestify on Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:10PM (#20119249)

I once heard of the hypothesis that once the last proton decays, the universe will once more be completely uniform in every way. With nothing to distinguish any part of the universe from any other part, space becomes meaningless and the universe has once more entered a state of nothingness much like how it was "before" the Big Bang.

So, in a sense, the heat death is not so different from the big bounce.

Unfortunately I did not bother to bookmark what I had read, and can no longer find a name or anything referring to it on the internet.

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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by aoner on Thursday June 06, 2019 @07:00PM (#20120054)

There is a great mini documentary made that tries to answer this question https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA

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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by marton78 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:49PM (#20119580)

You and your parent should definitely read Asimov's short story "The last question", if you haven't yet. Just Google for it.

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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by mehrdadn on Thursday June 06, 2019 @06:01PM (#20119667)

"You and your parent" definitely confused me for a second!

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