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Originally posted by lurkette
Physicists help me out here.
Maybe it's like the expanding/contracting universe theory (can't remember exactly how it goes, but it was something like this): the big bang was preceded by something I think was called the "big bust" - contraction of the universe into a single point, which then exploded and formed the universe - the big bang. This cycle repeats itself over and over again, expanding till there's no more energy to expand it further, then contracting, exploding, expanding, etc.
Maybe "god" is a being that evolves in a similar cycle - an omniscient and omnipresent force constructed of the psychic energy of all living beings, which dissolves/explodes into the created universe, then evolves again, etc. I don't know what the motive would be for the dissolution - perfection is boring? but it'd be cool if the metaphysical mirrored the physical.
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The Big Crunch is one theory. However it has been mostly discarded at this stage. There doesn't appear to be enough matter in existence to cause the universe to slow down and recollapse in on itself.
It seems more likely that the universe will continue to expand indefinately to a total "Heat Death".