| Re: Does Space really go on forever?
Personally, I believe in a modified version of the 'Big Bang' theory. I believe that there have been many 'Smaller Big Bangs' which is why everything is not expanding in the same direction.
There is no difference between energy and matter: it is just a different form of the same thing. You cannot destroy matter, only change it's form. Therefor matter/energy is forever.
Space expands and then contracts until it is converted back into pure energy at the maximum concentration possible. Then the capture of a single electron would push it over the edge and start the 'Big Bang' again. I have no idea how long this process takes, but I have been here since 1940 and it hasn't happened yet!
Another interesting point is that the average time taken for huge hits on the earth is one every 100 million years. Now it takes our solar system 200 million years to rotate. It looks like this would put us in the path of a stream of material once every 100 million years. Hmmm.....
Dodgy subject, but how can this be explaned without a creator? Nothing is ever formed spontaniously from nothing. Where did the original energy come from?  |