Long time, no postee

Hi people, how was your summer? I've been back to work for about three weeks now but before that I had a nice holiday of three weeks in Italy. I've read a lot of books during my holiday so the time has come to write another philosophical story to answer your life questions. Holiday pictures will be in a different post, our digital camera broke so we had to use disposable camera's.

This brings me to the subject: what happens at the end of the universe. As you all know the universe started with the big bang and has been expanding ever since. We don't know what started the big bang, but that is what metaphysical discussion #1 was about. Nevertheless the universe won't expand forever, there are two theorems as to how it will end:
1. The universe expands until everything becomes so distant from everything else that the universe grows cold and everybody dies.
2. The universe expands until the pull of gravity of every object in the universe reverses the explosion into an implosion, the universe stops expanding and begins contracting. From this point opinions differ as to whether:
2a. During the contraction of the universe everything that has happended until the reversal will happen again, in reverse.
2b. During the contraction of the universe everything does not happen again in reverse, new things happen.In either case, after contraction the universe will implode into a single super heavy black hole and explode again in a second big bang! Note that theory one best expresses the linear view of time as in the western religions (creation, things happen, judgement day), while the second one appeals to the cyclic view of time as in the eastern religions (an endless circle of death and rebirth).The bottom line of the story is that it doesn't matter which way because we're not even going to be there to either freeze to death or get crushed. Planet earth will die when the sun becomes larger and larger until it fries everything in the solar system like a giant flame grill. Then again, you won't be there to witness that because you will be dead long before. Yes, dead, just like dr. Oetker!