"Every action we do says who we are, but every word we say says who our friends are."~S.C.
I am going to back track to when we went to the planetarium. I took some notes, not on what was being said but to what I was thinking about the Knowledge Issues that came to mind.
If black is the absence of light and the light from the stars keep on traveling towards us does that mean that the black night sky will no longer exist as we know it? Also does that mean that if I were to go outside and light a candle for five minutes and then extinguished it, does that mean the light from that candke would travel through the universe passing each point for a length of five minutes, or does that candle need to be continuously lit in order to push the light further on. I mean the light from the sun already reaches us eight minutes after it leavs the sun. Does the light decay or does it fan out so that the whole universe will get the five minutes of the candle light?
What is the center of the univer and what is located there? Is it empty? Is it a black hole? Is it a star? Is it a gargantuan planet? How far does it go to get to the center? If there is a center, is there an edge? Is the heat needed to sustain life come just from the sun or does it also come from the center of the galaxy or even universe? Does your location in the universe then limit the possibilites for life?
Does the universe expand until it "grows" to the point where the outward force is then reduced enough that the strength of the universe's(Not Earth's) gravity(center) is strong enough to pull it back in on itself and the pull of the gravity due to the amount of mass being focused in a single spot overcomes for a mere fraction of a second so that the waiting force of the electrons and atoms(quarks) reaches over the force of gravity but only after the condensed mass is under such great pressure that it becomes unstable to where now the force pushes it back out resulting in another "Big Bang". How long would it take for the outward force to slow enough so that gravity could overcome it? This is assuming that a frictionless universe it impossible. Would the rate at which the universal gravitational force accelerate in an exponental growth due to the accumulation of the universal mass being focused and thus receive a greater hold, or would the mass itself give negative acceleration? Or would the united force from the universal mass be so great that it expands the center to explode into the mass and the mass resulting in an implosion to where the previously stated Knowledge Issue would take over to the point where it would compact until it was unstable and then exert the force outward again?