RE: Atheists are miserable.
May 18, 2012 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2012 at 11:13 am by Anomalocaris.)
(May 18, 2012 at 12:27 am)Hovik Wrote:BethK Wrote:"big crunch"
This is a very small quibble, but I just wanted to point out that cosmologists have determined that the universe will ultimately end through heat death, not a big crunch. This lecture by Lawrence Krauss discusses this topic and many other very interesting things; definitely worth a watch if you've an hour to kill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo
String theorists have already advanced cyclic big crunch model of the universe that feature the currently observed properties of the accelerated expansion in the 3 observed dimensions. The big crunch doesn't have to come from contraction of the 3 observed dimension of the universe. It can comes from movement of the entire observed universe in one or more of the other 8 dimension thought for mathematical reasons to exist but beyond current ability to detect.
There have been a some recent observation which suggest the what has been taken to be the behavior of the visible portion of the universe does not represent behavior on a larger scale including portions currently beyond our visible light horizon. Or universe is non-homogenous even in the 3 diemnsion we observe on a scale larger than our visible horizon.