What would the contraction of the universe look like?

We would look out into space and see a cosmological blue shift instead of a red shift. Its magnitude would decrease from a maximum NEAR us to lower values far away because nearby parts of the universe are collapsing more rapidly than distant regions seen by older light from earlier ages. Eventually, galaxies would become noticeably crowded together, individual clusters would touch and dissolve, and galaxy collisions would become frequent and devastating. Eventually there would be no large collections of stars and the cosmic background radiation we now see at 2.7 K would increase in temperature to thousands of degrees, ionizing gas and causing stars to evaporate as though they were in an oven. Stars would actually run backwards because their cores would be COOLER than the cosmic background radiation, and radiation would flow into a star rather than outwards from a star.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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