[KholdStunner]

well, there have certainly been a lot of posts, and i didnt have the time to read every word, so im sorry if im repeating what some1 else said.

anyways i'll try to respond to a lot of the comments.

-1st off, bettina said it would take trillions of years for the black holes to evaporate, and the universe will not continue for trillions of years. no matter which outcome the universe has chosen, it will only live around 20 billion years more.

-martin said that no matter how cold or how hot the universe gets, "it" will still live on. NOT true, and this is a fact. Every particle in this universe of ours will decay. It takes about 10^35 years. so actually, the universe will not live on, because when the last star burns out, then all live will die. and when the last particle decays, the universe will die. no more nothing.

-and if the big crunch occurs, instead of the big freeze, then all matter will be back to a single unit of matter (singularity). and i highly doubt another big bang could occur. because the universe has changed since it was all compacted in the 1st big bang. and it might have lost its materials used to create a big bang.

-and, this is my opinion, but i think there is no way that there could possibly be another universe. i believe we r the one and only. Dont you all feel a little more special? haha.

[Ophiolite]

KholdStunner said:

and when the last particle decays, the universe will die. no more nothing.

And what are they decaying into? Nothing?

[swansont]

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-1st off, bettina said it would take trillions of years for the black holes to evaporate, and the universe will not continue for trillions of years. no matter which outcome the universe has chosen, it will only live around 20 billion years more.

-martin said that no matter how cold or how hot the universe gets, "it" will still live on. NOT true, and this is a fact. Every particle in this universe of ours will decay. It takes about 10^35 years. so actually, the universe will not live on, because when the last star burns out, then all live will die. and when the last particle decays, the universe will die. no more nothing.

10³⁵ is a lot bigger than 20 billion, so your two observations are inconsistent.

The half-life for protons is an estimated lower bound, AFAIK, and as a statistical measure it does not mean that they all decay at that time - it means half of them will decay in that time. Half of the remaining ones in another half-life, etc. And, as was noted, they decay into something else. besides, we still have things like electrons and neutrinos zipping about.