is the universe imploding?
91706
Is this an introverted question?
703604
The universe is still expanding, and so far it's been dated at several billion years old, so assuming it began to collapse again, it would likely take just as long, before an immense black hole forms again and then there's another big bang.\n\nMy guess is that we'll be gone long before that, since our species uses more natural resources than the Earth can replenish.
346451
There is a very basic problem here. If you do a computation of the energy associated with the virtual particles, you get way, way, WAY more than enough to produce a closed universe. By one estimate, the answer is *at least* 63 orders of magnitude off. This is one of the worst predictions ever made! Clearly something is going on and nobody seems to have a good idea about how to get plausible results from this type of calculation. A *lot* of cancellation has to occur.
342592
The physics behind the beginning of the universe  was probably different than it is today.  For instance the period of inflation was not something that is happening now  Unless the current expansion of the universe is the same thing just slowed down.  But I would say the chances are that even a TOE won't help us understand where the universe came from.
36543
As I understand it, the universe is in fact finite.  However, it's expansion is continuous and progresses at such a rate that we can not, with current technology, move beyond to see the end.
333639
What if you were told....there is more then one??? This is TRUTH. The Universe is Creator Source expressing itself in the vastness of ALL time and space....there are universes within universes....CREATOR cannot stop expanding....it is its nature.....so YES.....most definitely........ALL UNIVERSES are INFINITE!!!!! And WE are expanding with it!\nSLEEPERS.....AWAKE!!!!!!\nwww.fromthestars.com\nwww.operationterra.com \nwww.librarising.com\nwww.2012.com.au\nwww.goldennumber.net\nwww.survive2012.com\nwww.prisonplanet.com\nwww.evolutionoftruth.com
92666
Things are getting really f***ed up.  I mean, I'm not sure if I'm just paying attention more now than when I was a kid, but it seems like the world has gone completely mad in the last ten years.  I think either Christ will come again or humans will destroy each other.  Either way, the world is definately ending sooner than later.
1026971
This isn't the first "End of Times" panic!  The ignorant masses are swept into a fervour by their spiritual leaders.  I believe this is a corrosive factor in humanity.  Whether it is religious rapture or Y2K, far too many people are just plain gullible.   What I see isn't really the end of times but a renewal of the dark ages.  Those in the dark remain in the dark and teach their kids there is no light.  The emergence of highly respected American Evangelist Zealots is very very disturbing and is leading to a new flat earth that the universe revolves around.
1106252
speaking in all logic terms all religon aside.  The universe always was it and it always will be here in one way or another.  But before the "big bang" the universe was smaller, much smaller infact than it was before this catastrophic event.  After the big bang everything that was once very very dense and all close together, is now moving apart from eachother at a considerable rate, leaving more and more area of what we call "space".
880652
the universe WAS a singularity (everything packed into an tiny tiny tiny space) before the big bang. So, i guess, technically, you  can go see the consequence of a singularity by opening your eyes. but see one as a singularity, i have no idea, sorry.
344481
well let us take a "logical" look....the big bang says that there was nothing, then something, and now everything is expanding away.  So how did things get farther away than time has permitted?  Hmmm...kind of a hole in the theory.
215108
Good question but I have to say that messing with the universe is rather impulsive and risky. Perhaps we should look to simpler projects like over population or world peace?\n\n*wink*
909934
There is some controversy over that. It is difficult to account for the expansion of the universe if it doesn't. At least at the very beginnings of the big bang.
1137754
I believe it. I also believe in the theory, in which, as you may also know, whole cosmos is going to turn back into that extra atom. What I wonder alot, when the expansion of the universe will stop and start to shrink back :=)))
635791
Finagle's principle:  The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum.
1130955
The universe will end when the sun and all the stars collapse and engulf everything killing everything and sucking it all into a dot. We will all be dead, so it doesn't matter what happens after that. Of course, we still have a few billion years before that happens, so I wouldn't worry about it. Besides, I believe the Lord will return before then, but the universe will not end at that time, only change.
221825
Alex is right, their was once a theory that space continually made more of itself, I can't remember how that was disproved. Their is also a theory that states theis is a constant struggle between the pull of the universe into itself and the need for it to expand, and that instead of a BANG in the big bang, it was more of a sudden and constant growth, just the need to expand getting a temporary leg up on the urge to retract. I believe that it was about 1.5 billion years into the future, will begin the Great Crunch, the exact opposite of the supposed Big Bang.\n\nThis also supports a theory that I have. It is believed that to go faster than the speed of light, would mean going backward through time, therefore when the Universe was an infinitesimal dot on a microscopic spot of nothingness and it rapidly became larger, the moment it did that the space it created would be so warped by all that matter it would probably become a Mega black hole in the newly created universe and nothing can escape it without going back through time, so I say that is exactly what happened. I propose that we are living the Great Crunch, just in reverse. It is a little far-fetched, but if you think about real hard it kinda makes sense.\n\nJust a note, I don't believe that I am just stating that I think it's possible, I'm not a nut, at least I hope not.\n\nI also like Gandalfs answer