In The Beginning? (Origins)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 18, 2008, 15:30 (5817 days ago) @ BBella

We can philosophize about perpetual possibilities, but current cosmologic theory doesn't allow for that. If correct, this universe started 13.7 billion year ago. Its spacetime is 'flat', not concave or convex, which means it should expand forever into a heat death in 100 billion years or less. Studies of supernovas show that it is expanding faster and faster. Our sun will expand in size in 5 billion years, as it dies,will engulf the Earth and all life will disappear. In other words there is beginning and end. We are here during a favorable part of time for our universe. Worse that what I have described is that The Milky Way will meet up with the Andromeda galaxy in two billion years. That means chaos for this planet. Nothing is perpetual.