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Imagine that for some reason the current slow expansion of the universe is going to reverse, and the universe is going to collapse back to the pre-inflation state. [Let's make this an assumption without worrying about the mechnism]
So we have a very dilute and cold distribution of energy, since everything has been processed by black holes in the crunch-and-evaporate process. As this universe begins concentrate down again, would we see particles, stars and galaxies forming, and life evolving, and so on? Or would it remain featureless until maybe a "deflation" and a singularity develops?
So we have a very dilute and cold distribution of energy, since everything has been processed by black holes in the crunch-and-evaporate process. As this universe begins concentrate down again, would we see particles, stars and galaxies forming, and life evolving, and so on? Or would it remain featureless until maybe a "deflation" and a singularity develops?