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Originally Posted by tore
From a certain point of view, you could argue that every event that takes place is unique for happening in that place at that time and, once done, can never happen again. And from that point of view, you will only exist once.
Recreated? Why would it be recreated in the same way?
If there is a constant, infinite, unchangeable law called gravity that traps that matter in that black hole for eternity and there is no event that can take place in the universe that can ever cause that matter to exist anywhere than in that black hole once that event has taken place, then of course the probability of that matter doing anything but exist as part of a black hole is non-existant. At that point, how would the event repeat itself?
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You're right about that. I guess I'm assuming that black holes aren't infinite -- or rather, that nothing is infinite, which is odd since I'm assuming the universe is infinite in this question.
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Originally Posted by Face
The matter doesn't have to be destroyed, just dispersed with trajectories that prevent it from ever meeting again (luckily it has infinite space to do this in).
As far as we know, all the energy/matter came into existence with the creation of space-time. If this happened again, would that be a different universe? I suppose how that's how I was viewing it. One universe consisting of a certain amount of matter/energy from it's initiation, and that another one doesn't/couldn't/won't happen(?) inside another.
Another thing to consider is that space time didn't exist until the big bang, so it can't really be said to be a time-probable event. As far as we know, time didn't exist to lead up to it happening, so it might not really be applicable to apply it to happening "again" given enough time...because it includes/created/IS time.
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I see what you mean.
On a side note -- this seems pretty interesting to me.
If our universe was really infinite, the night sky would be completely white.
