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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:30 PM
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Help! I need a word. What is the opposite of the Big Bang?
Big Bang = the beginning of the expansion.

Something Else = the end of the expansion, beginning of contraction.

What is the something else called?
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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:41 PM
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1. Creationism?
The Great Shrinkage?
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:43 PM
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2. Prehistoric pucker
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:43 PM
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3. Heat Death
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:45 PM
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4. Sex with a Republican.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:45 PM
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5. collapse?
Edited on Sat Feb-20-10 03:47 PM by Kali
also a theory called Big Crunch
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 04:13 PM
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11. Thank You!
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:47 PM
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6. The Big Suck
...Think about it... :evilgrin:
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:56 PM
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7. The Little Leak
Starts with a bang, ends with a whimper.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:57 PM
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8. The "big crunch," like Kali said. Here's a wiki link
Edited on Sat Feb-20-10 03:58 PM by GreenPartyVoter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 04:12 PM
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10. Thank you very much - that is exactly what I was looking for.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 11:25 PM
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18. or 'heat death' which is looking more and more likely
The heat death is a possible final thermodynamic state of the universe, in which it has "run down" to a state of no thermodynamic free energy to sustain motion or life. In physical terms, it has reached maximum entropy. The hypothesis of a universal heat death stems from the 1850s ideas of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin who extrapolated the theory of heat views of mechanical energy loss in nature, as embodied in the first two laws of thermodynamics, to universal operation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-21-10 12:04 PM
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22. Lawrence Krauss says we are in the 'worst of all possible Universes.'
'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo

One of the best lectures I've ever heard.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-21-10 12:19 PM
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24. Yep, I put that on the science forum a few weeks ago
Very funny guy. For a cosmologist.

"Things are going to get unimaginably worse and they are never ever going to get better again."

Of course, he's talking about 10100 years from now, but still...
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 04:57 PM
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26. Was gonna say that too.
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Urban Prairie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 04:03 PM
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9. Shrinky Dinky nt
Edited on Sat Feb-20-10 04:04 PM by Urban Prairie
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 04:32 PM
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12. The Dry Hump.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 09:10 PM
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13. Little Whimper
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-23-10 01:46 AM
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36. lol. my first thought as well.
this is the way the world ends
this is the way the world ends
not with a bang but a whimper

...so something like that.
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seaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 09:12 PM
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14. Genesis

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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 09:32 PM
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15. The Matrix Reloaded
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 09:33 PM
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16. Black hole collapse
That's my guess
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 09:38 PM
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17. Gnab Gib (I'm serious)
I don't think that's what most physicists think is going to happen though. I think the consensus is that the expansion will continue at an ever increasing rate until the fabric of matter is ripped apart. It's called the Big Rip.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 11:26 PM
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19. Silent, but deadly.
:)
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-21-10 04:48 AM
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20. The big Implosion?
works for me.. :shrug:
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bluhoodie Donating Member (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-21-10 11:48 AM
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21. Cold fusion? /nt
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bookworm65t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-21-10 12:04 PM
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23. Republican Convention
n/t
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bluhoodie Donating Member (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 04:47 PM
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25. That's hilarious
Fits the definition in the OP:
Something Else = the end of the expansion, beginning of contraction.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:  :rofl:     :rofl:
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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 05:26 PM
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27. I think it is called "Gravitational Collapse" or "Contraction."
NT
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 05:37 PM
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28. The Teensy Blip nt
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 06:10 PM
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29. The Olympics on NBC,24 on Fox and the Bachelor on ABC.
One of may favorite shows.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 06:13 PM
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30. solid state
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 09:13 PM
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31. The "Big Bang" is actually the end of this universe.
We're all racing backwards, we just don't know it.

:silly:
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Dystopian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 09:20 PM
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32. Fear Factor.
peace~
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ElboRuum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-23-10 12:33 AM
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33. The Big Crunch...
Was postulated as the slowing down of universal expansion, its stop, and the gravitational collapse of all space and its contents back to a singularity. A variant of this hypothesis, called the Big Bounce, postulated that at the point of singularity another Big Bang might occur resulting in universal rebirth (with or without the same natural laws). Largely disregarded now since it appears that acceleration is increasing.

This is Jack Horkheimer, telling you to keep looking up.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-23-10 01:03 AM
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34. the big suck? the small pop? I like making up expressions.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-23-10 01:23 AM
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35. premature ejaculation
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