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Old 09-08-2008, 09:32 PM   #18
Number 2 Pencil
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I often wonder what the rest of eternity is like. Then I compare it to the other half of eternity that occurred before i was alive. As hawkeye mentions, that didn't seem like too much of a sweat.



I had read as a teen that one idea scientists had was that as soon as the expanding universe reached its point of maximum expansion, it would reverse direction and begin to shrink, and time's arrow would reverse as well. So we would live our lives backwards but not notice it.

I imagined it happening at some moment in my life where suddenly that was the last moment of my life and I would never realize that my life would begin to wind again instead of unwind. I'm glad that this theory of the end of the universe isn't considered a big possibility anymore.
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