Raise your hand if you live in a stable universe that’s rapidly expanding to support its own vastness. Not so fast Earthlings. We might have an end-game level crunch-time problem on our hands. Up front: Everyone’s heard of the Big Bang. And long-time Neural readers will certainly be familiar with the Big Rip. But it’s long past time we talked about the Big Crunch. This hypothetical event would be our universe’s final act. It would essentially be the exact opposite of the Big Bang. Our universe would collapse in on itself until it became an infinitesimal singularity – a single…
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