[quote name='Brak']The universe having a starting point is astonishing.
It is theorized that once everything moving away from that point reaches the outer-limits of the universe, itself, that it will rubberband back towards the center, which would in-turn recreate the big bang, and thus recreating the exact same universe.
Just imagine, if that were true, we've all lives out our lives an infinite amount of times, which is minuscule in comparison to the scale of the entire universe, and time, itself.[/quote]
Holy, divinity. It is genius, really. Most of the collected theories associated with the big bang have been around since aristotle's idea of a centered/sphereic universe (maybe even before), all cultivated from ideas gathered from wisdom of understanding of different people from different times. All started because man wanted to 'reach' the heavens. Sounds almost like a fairy tale... a very complex and 'astonishing' one.