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The document discusses what might happen if the universe suddenly collapsed. It describes three potential scenarios for a universal collapse: 1) The Big Crunch, where everything collides into a super-dense singularity as gravity pulls everything back together; 2) The Big Rip, where the universe tears itself apart due to the accelerating expansion of dark energy; and 3) The Big Freeze, where the universe reaches maximum entropy and heat death as it expands forever. If the universe collapsed, there would be no planets or stars left, just particles and radiation. It is possible the existing energy could cause a new Big Bang and the universe could potentially rebuild itself from the same mass and energy in a new cycle.

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Science Project 8

The document discusses what might happen if the universe suddenly collapsed. It describes three potential scenarios for a universal collapse: 1) The Big Crunch, where everything collides into a super-dense singularity as gravity pulls everything back together; 2) The Big Rip, where the universe tears itself apart due to the accelerating expansion of dark energy; and 3) The Big Freeze, where the universe reaches maximum entropy and heat death as it expands forever. If the universe collapsed, there would be no planets or stars left, just particles and radiation. It is possible the existing energy could cause a new Big Bang and the universe could potentially rebuild itself from the same mass and energy in a new cycle.

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Science Project

What would happen if the universe suddenly collapsed tomorrow?

The Beginning of the Universe:


● As we all know, the Universe was formed after the Big Bang.

– About the Big Bang theory

~ First of all, a theory is a system of ideas that is intended to explain


something.
~ The Big Bang theory is supposedly the explanation of how the universe
began. The Big Bang happened around 13.8 billion years ago.
~ [amnh organization] Our universe began with an explosion of space itself
(the Big Bang). Starting from extremely high density and temperature,
space expanded, the universe cooled, and the simplest elements formed.
Gravity gradually drew matter together to form the first stars and the first
galaxies.
-> https://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/astronomy-terms/big-
crunch2.htm

How exactly would the universe collapse? (Limited to 3 scenarios)


1. The Big Crunch: The universe would shrink, causing everything
(planets, stars,...) to collide.
~ As gravity pulls everything back, stars would hit and form a huge deadly
black hole. “At the end, nothing would remain but a super-hot, super-dense
singularity -- the seed of another universe”
~ Singularity: “A gravitational singularity (or space-time singularity) is a
location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational
field become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate
system. It is a point in which all physical laws are indistinguishable from one
another, where space and time are no longer interrelated realities, but
merge indistinguishably and cease to have any independent meaning.”
2. The Big Rip: The universe is constantly expanding, but it will be torn
apart (it would literally rip itself up) in the future ‘Dark energy’ is
pushing distant galaxies further away at an increasing rate, this may
get to the point where everything gets too spread out and nothing
could possible hold them back together -> destroys everything.
3. The Big Freeze/Heat Death: This happens as the universe reaches a
state of maximum entropy (the measure of the energy dispersal in the
system), “when all available energy (such as from a hot source) has
moved to places of less energy (such as a colder source). Once this
has happened, no more work can be extracted from the universe.” [As
long as the amount of stuff doesn't go over a critical threshold, the
universe will continue to expand forever, and eventually suffer heat
death.” (Bbc)]
-> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=itpLU7OzNV8&feature=share
-> https://youtu.be/4_aOIA-vyBo
->https://www.universetoday.com/84147/singularity/
->https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae181.cfm

What would be left?


– There will definitely be no planets and stars left. Particles and radiation

will though.
– As the expansion of the universe ramps up, everything would kind of

decay and turn into radiation and the universe would end up having full
of single particles.

Would it be able to rebuild itself?


– Due to all the existing energy,... [“Once the fundamental touchstones

of mass and structure disappear, scale also disappears. The infinitely


large universe becomes physically identical to an infinitesimal one, and
is reborn in a new Big Bang — with all the mass and energy of the
previous universe once again jammed together into a tiny space.” -
nbc news]
– It could make a new start: with new planets, new life forms, new stars

~ Currently, it’s hard to determine wether the universe could rebuild it or


not. But let’s just say, it’s definitely possible.

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