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A while ago, Frank J. Tipler, renown mathematician and physicist proclaimed a startling revelation for our futures... He believes in a God, and as i understand, his idea's where created so that we could be resurrected in a slightly more different way than what is spoken in the 66th book of the Bible... The Apocallypse.
His question was ''how do we escape the big crunch?''
Well, before we look into his question, the universe might not suffer a big crunch... Our universe really depends on a critical amount of density in the vacuum for the universe to reverse expansion. This universe, if it continues expanding forever, it coined as an open-universe.
However, if there is just enough matter, expansion will hault, and everything will be dragged back into the dreaded gravitational singularity where everything came from. This is unavoidable... So one cannot escape big crunch if it happens... however, if one see's the universe in light of relativity, some strange things happen at the very last instants of time and space.
According to Tipler, in the far future... (But not too far... Our Sun after all has only 5 billion years left to survive it's own nuclear runaway) - humans will have achieved how to imprint consciousness onto nanotechnological life, and whizz it out into the far reaches of spacetime! Grand eh? Too grand for me to believe, but it gets one thinking. How we might achieve something like this is highly debatable, and shrouded in controversy.
According to Tipler's picture, (which varies between scientists), the universe will begin to contract in 10 billion billion years. (Other scientists have said something like 45 billion years... a lot less). He see's us floating through spacetime, developing into more complex nanotechnological life, and a further 10 billion billion-odd years down the line, the universe will have shrunk down to infinitessimal size... but as we are dragged into the singular region, something strange happens; Time happens to stop for 20, 000 years! This is because everything is relative in the universe. This is Frank Tipler's Grand Resurrection with God, and it happens at the very last instants which seem to go on forever.
Neo:D