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On 2002-11-27 14:54, Jetmech0417 wrote:
I didn't know if this should go here, or in the GA forum, so I chose here.
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I'd say you chose correctly.
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But, the question I have, is this: Has anyone ever speculated that perhaps our universe has undergone multiple big crunches to achieve the state it's in today?
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I am quite sure it has been speculated. It is only natural for that question to follow the question of whether our universe is going to experience a big crunch.
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Is it possible that perhaps our universe is in actuality many times older than we think it is,
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Who knows? As far as I know, we can only speculate the age based on the oldest (most distant) object we can detect. (Someone who understands cosmology better may be able to clarify this.) Don't worry, the jury is still out there on the exact age of the universe!
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and our universe had to undergo a number of big crunches before it achieved a state where enough energy was pent up to allow it to expand indefinately?
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Interesting proposition. I do not believe we currently have the means to test this kind of hypothesis yet or not.
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Anyways, I was just wondering if it was in any way possible that our universe has already undergone multiple big crunches/bangs, and if anyone has speculated on the idea outside of SciFi.
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To borrow a quote, anything is possible - improbable or unlikely is another matter. Unfortunantly, until we can find a way to understand what there was before the Big Bang, I do not think we can really tell. The best advice I can give, if you are really curious, is to do a Google search on the big crunch asn see if it shows anything. Even better, if you can get to a university, search the directory of their periodicals and see if any of the science journals have a mention of this.
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