In article <477a9e54$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> Warp wrote:
> >   As far as I know, the universe is *expanding*, not going towards a si
ngle
> > point.
> 
> If there's enough mass, then eventually gravity will pull everything 
> into a "single point", just like everything came from a single point 
> during the big bang. (At least, that's my lay understanding.)
> 
Actually, one aspect of at least one multi-universe system implies that 
the big bang may have been a "white hole". Which is to say, something 
that spews out matter, rather than condensing it. The math implies that 
nearly any such structure though is unstable. I.e., it will only spew 
matter for a short duration, from a singularity, before it stops doing 
so. The question then becomes, "Did the white hole generate enough 
matter, and with it, other forces, to prevent the whole thing falling 
into a singularity again?" However, you are talking about GR. Quantum 
mechanics, which GR doesn't apply to so well, implies that at the level 
of a singularity its impossible to everything to fall into one, without 
something getting back out again at all (i.e. Hawking's Radiation). Even 
nastier is the implication that the structure of what comes out is 
derivative of the material that goes in, such that information is never 
lost in the system. Prior assumptions implied that the structure of a 
thing, once in a black hole, would be randomized, such that it would 
never come out in a mathematically predictable form.

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