Hey, what is your view on the galaxies expanding, and the universe going back into a singularity?

I was under the impression that the universe's expansion was accelerating and that all of the galaxies will eventually drift completely apart into darkness.

From what I have gleaned from Stephen Hawking's works; A Brief The Universe in a Nutshell, and The Grand Design, it seems that the universe is much more likely to just "burn out" as it were. Apparently, the speed at which the universe is expanding is projected to eventually make gravity unable to pull everything back in. It seems a bit anti-climactic and I would have liked to think that it would all collapse back into a singularity and possibly cause another Big Bang, starting the sequence of events all over again.

I suppose not everything happens in neat little cycles.

The universe appears to be expanding along the dimensions we are able to perceive. But you know, String Theory proposes numerous unseen dimensions. Imagine a circular ditch in the ground.As water is poured into the ditch, it spreads in both directions, seeming moving further and further from its point of origin, but eventually the circle is completed and the water spreads back to where it began.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.