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I generally post fully formed thoughts (or long mulled-over thoughts) here, but I thought I'd post this new thought because I think there may be significant implications and I'd love other people who are way smarter than me to be able to toy around with potential implications. And since I'm at a busy stage in my life, maybe I'll do some more of these Pascalesque Pensées (in terms of short thoughts, not in terms of the same quality as Pascal).
THOUGHT: A Big Crunch would lead to a big bang before all matter was absorbed into the singularity. If one wants to argue that all matter in the universe is required in order to initiate a new big bang, then they would have to deal with the insane teleological implication that there is exactly enough matter in the universe to trigger a big bang, and no less would do (though more might).
Yet, if one wants to avoid the teleological implications of the latter position, then most of the time when a big crunch happens, the singularity is triggered with less matter than the original big bang - leaving some matter stranded from the old big bang. Given ~infinite playthroughs, it seems like more and more matter might be stranded outside the big crunch force until eventually a new singularity capable of a big bang could not be formed.
THOUGHT: A Big Crunch would lead to a big bang before all matter was absorbed into the singularity. If one wants to argue that all matter in the universe is required in order to initiate a new big bang, then they would have to deal with the insane teleological implication that there is exactly enough matter in the universe to trigger a big bang, and no less would do (though more might).
Yet, if one wants to avoid the teleological implications of the latter position, then most of the time when a big crunch happens, the singularity is triggered with less matter than the original big bang - leaving some matter stranded from the old big bang. Given ~infinite playthroughs, it seems like more and more matter might be stranded outside the big crunch force until eventually a new singularity capable of a big bang could not be formed.
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