re: #353 Mich-again

I agree for the most part with your post, but I think you might be overestimating the power of the ding. I say never let the threat of a down ding stop you from posting something you feel strongly about.

Nore: #414 Racer X

OK. So the universe is a trillion times larger than I can imagine it to be. Now picture the universe as constantly expanding (which it is). It had to have started off somehow - Big Bang perhaps.

Now a trillion years from now what if the universe stops expanding and starts contracting? Then a trillion million years from now collapses into the opposite of a big bang - a Big Suck - due to the sheer volume of dark matter and black holes crashing in on each other.

Then immediately a Big Bang!

And we start all over again.

Your first hypotehsis is non verifiable, and irrelevant to the rest of your thesis.