Quote Originally Posted by xblackdogx
anyone who has researched/thought about this intensly please comment, i've been pushed off my seat the last few days when reading about the moments and matter in the universe
Well... today we still dont know if the universe is 'open' or 'closed', as we still dont know the mass of the universe.
If its mass were greater than some critical mass, then it will be 'closed', meaning the gravitational pull will, someday, overcome the actual expansion of the universe, and will make it crunch into a big clump of ultra-dense matter.
If its mass were smaller than the critical mass, then the gravitational pull will be insufficient to stop the universe expansion, and it will expand forever.
And, fatkid, there is some oriental religions which believe the same thing you was thinking. I think hinduism is one example, with cycles of creation and destruction.
Anyway, im pretty sure no one of us will survive long enough to know it for sure...