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Walking around Sherman Pass, apparently!

What's Bran doing in RL?

We are arrogant enough to think that we have even a small idea about how the universe works. I suspect that we know less than %0.00001 of the answers. Heck, we had to create the concept of Dark Matter just to make our math work right. I'm going with the KISS method. There was an explosion that moved everything out. Gravity will eventually pull everything back together, even if that spot is past where we are right now (which is why we think the universe is expanding forever).

Man that white list proposal is so disgusting

I’ll admit I’m not particularly well-versed in the science behind this question, but endless expansion seems to make more sense to me.

The endless expansion fits a little better with my understanding of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (a system will move towards a state with higher entropy).

Supposing that The Universe will change once the end of life happens, it will shrink from expansion, just to expand again, to provide life once again. The end creates a beginning. One option creates the other. If end means life ceases to exist here, then no conciousness will be able to experience the universe, so it is just like an end. If end means how the rest of the world acts without us or any other life form, I believe it will make cycles, each with maybe a slight change, but with the ending and the beginning staying the same.

It was supposed to have allowed Peers to post there. I'll make a request. Thanks for pointing this out, West. As for activity in The Hall of Peers, Bran asked us to think of a project we would like to consider and my idea involves the Peers!

Dilber/Chucky Bear credit to Yy

The Big Crunch... wouldn't that be nice? An infinite cycle of the universe. But alas, the scientific consensus seems to be that it'll be a heat death. Shame, that.

Heat Death of The Universe has such a nice ring.