"Brevity may be the soul of wit but repetition is the heart of instruction." -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.The problem with a future collapsing universe is it can't happen. We know this because we can see galaxies receding faster and faster towards a cosmic horizon. The rate of expansion is increasing, not decreasing as it would if there was a Big Crunch going to happen. At the edge of the visible universe, space is expanding faster than c. Galaxies are being lost every day and matter is not being created any more. It is a dire situation. At some point in the far future everything will disappear.
Recession is this way in direction and magnitude, keeping creation / recreation:
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