Quote Originally Posted by Pensive View Post
What seems most likely to me is that there's a big bang, the universe expands, eventually it collapses in the 'big crunch', and then it starts all over, and this cycle has been going on for infinity, and will forever continue. I also think it's most likely that the universe is exactly the same each cycle (also meaning there is an infinite number of parallel universes, each remaining exactly the same throughout these cycles (which also handily explains time travel paradoxes)).
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I personally hate that theory. It grates on me. The thought that there is one existence endlesly repeating itself is unexiting and does, somewhat, bring a certain pointlesness to life.

Thankfully it's pretty much defunct as it seems that gravity isnt slowing down the expansion of the universe at all, its almost certainly accelerating outward and out of control. A lot more exiting, dont you think?

Quote Originally Posted by Pensive View Post
I voted no. The Big Bang is the silliest theory I have heard - not saying science is stupid just saying science has a long way to go. It hardly explains where the substance that created the Big Bang came from.
one strange theory I read was that matter, or existance is infinite. And the Big Bang is merely a death/rebirth cycle of that existance which is infinite.
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In all likleyhood there was no substance that created the universe. It was probably an unstable quantum fluxuation of 'nothing', as it were.

Or god.

Or the collision of two other universes floating about in the multiverse.

Or it is a simulation on a computer existing in a 'real' universe.

Oh and if you think that theory is strange you should read up on some others.