re: #196 JustABill

I have always wondered if gravity was anti-entropic. If we experience the “Big Crunch” wouldn’t that mean that the universe is more ordered at the end (single huge mass surrounded by nothing, than it was in the middle(more uniform distribution of matter)

Even if we don’t have a “Big Crunch”, an isolated cloud of gas in space will eventually develop into a more organized state(Star and possible planets) than it was before, due mainly to the forces of gravity.

Good point. But now we need to get cosmological. Because if the Big Crunch happens, by definition (or at least by some people’s definition), it won’t be a big ball of all matter and energy surrounded by a vast universe of nothingness; in fact, the big ball of all matter and energy will be the entire extent of the universe, and there can be nothing — not even “nothingness” nothing — beyond its parameters. The universe will collapse in on itself, and no existence can exist outside of it.

Hard for the human brain to conceptualize, but that’s the theory.