[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

I see. I guess where I'm really not thinking straight is reading into the big bang part to literally. I thought the theory once stated that all matter in the universe was once all formed up into a ball. Boom! The whole thing flys apart, eventually it will slow down and then start pulling back with all matter smashing back into a ball and them BOOM, the whole process repeats.

I think that is how the whole show started and then went on to say, much to their surprise all matter was actually accelerating away. Show ultimatley concluded that the universe would either tear itself apart or matter would become so far apart , everything would eventually cool off to the point where all stars are dead and space is just filled with cold icy rocks.

The problem is that you are stuck up on the Matter being in a ball and flying out.
The whole universe was a ball, matter AND space, and that's where people get hung up.
When the universe was all crunched up it wasn't because the matter was all in one place in the universe, it was because that was the size of the universe.

That's the tough part, visualizing that it isn't matter flying out into space, it is space expanding and taking the matter with it, that is what the balloon example was about. The surface of the baloon is expanding and taking what's on it with it.

Whoops, didn't see Photon expalined this again as well. Oh well, I guess I'm just reiterating what he said.