1. FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
What role does science play in explaining the future of the universe?

2. THE PAST
• The universe started with a big bang.
• From a point of singularity where all matter that exists was the
universe expanded over a period of approximately 14 billion
years

3. THE PRESENT
• The universe is currently expanding and evidence for this
expansion is the red shift

4. THE FUTURE
• Open universe
• Closed universe
• Flat universe

5. THEORIES ABOUT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
• Big Freeze or heat death • Big Bounce
• According to this theory, the universe
will one day stop expanding. The big bounce theory combines the
big bang and big crunch theories to
• Then, as gravity pulls on the matter, the create a vision of an endless, in
universe will begin to contract, falling which the universe repeatedly
inward until it has collapsed back into a expands from a singularity only to
super-hot, super-dense singularity eventually collapse back in on itself