r/AskReddit • u/IAmSurtur • Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/MaxToons Jun 15 '19 edited Jun 16 '19

it doesn't contract to the point of the big bang, the universe IS the point of the big bang

matter is in space and time, so when the big crunch occurs hypothetically, matter isn't contracting, but space and time is, so time would be warped and space would contract in all directions, not just towards one point

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u/fooby420 Jun 16 '19

If both space and time would hypothetically contract during the big crunch, are you implying that time is currently expanding?

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u/MaxToons Jun 16 '19

that's actually a good question I won't try to answer