I think the below two links are best summed up like this:

Time may end during Earth’s lifespan because there may not be enough mass in the universe to help it collapse back in on itself, therefore the infinite universe is decaying with entropy, energy won’t last, and we will become a cold snapshot of time frozen in infinity.

Read more here:

Time likely to end during earth’s lifetime

And here:

BUT ONLY IF the steady state theory of the universe is proven to be true...

I think that’s a bit simplistic, but basically… if the universe is eternal, every probable thing will happen, and at some point time will end due to a catastrophe. If not, the universe will burn out like a light bulb, and expansion will happen eternally until there isn’t enough mass left, nor enough energy… and it will just freeze. That’s a bit more acceptable, to me, than watching the mass slow down red shift to the point we collapse back in on ourselves in some “big crunch”. That does, romantically, lead to the cyclical universe where every kiss and laugh and joyous thrill of life and the emotional spectrum of existence is relived, experienced again in some alternate form…

But a steady state universe would allow for entropy’s iron grip – creating a stale and lonely cosmos drifting along the waxing waves of energy and memories of a universe’s cold existence.

I might have most of this wrong… that time and space are independent but can convert into one another? I think that’s against the laws of thermodynamics, but there is so much we don’t understand.

I guess it’s more complex than this…

I did add this to the one article about time:

But this is really, fairly simple. Is there enough mass in the universe to have it collapse back in on itself, or not?

But the idea that you need to invent some convenient cataclysm to restore order seems foolhardy. Occam says that the simplest answer will hold most likely… and I think as romantic as it may be to conceive of a universe that is continually reborn – where kisses are experienced again, where laughter echoes familiarly across multiple dimensions, etc – the fact is that the nature of thermodynamics in regards to entropy would assume a solitary, cold universe getting darker like incandescent bulbs burning out. It will ebb towards a creaking halt…. snuffing out the fire in the belly of planets, and the engines of stars will shutter to a halt. Energy will burn away, and the winter of our dimension will settle in without anticipation of thaw or awakening.

It depends what makes you happy… the compactor that renews a universal womb through some continual big bang to collapse cycle, or that we all only do this dance but once.

I think it’s all too syrupy, to be sure, but grounded, simple answers are, if not the most comforting, the best.

but Uh – Oh

Well… HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

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