If the universe were to collapse, would we start talking backwards?
If the universe were to collapse, would we talk backwards?
No.... It is completely irrelevant to us the direction in which we are moving. Nothing would change in the slightest. Humans would be long extinct by the time of the Big Crush.
According to my calculations, if the universe were to collapse, we would start talking out of our arse and farting from our mouth. But wait, isn't this what most of our politicians do right now? Hmm, lemme go check my calculations again.
Maybe the universe has collapsed already as we increasingly hear a good deal of backwards talk in the media.....from politicans mainly, but also from our representatives in local Government as well, such as this Town Clerk in England somewhere during is speech while opening a new housing development by the magnificent name of the Keir Hardie Eastate, wherever that is...down in England somewhere as I say. Using double speak is more or less the same as backwards speak for all the sense it makes to the long suffering constituents of these guys who are made to pay for electing them in the first place.
Admittedly this recording was made many years ago, and the speaker (a certain Stanley Unwin) has long since picked up his golden harp apparently, so backwards speak must have been with us all the while and it's not a new phenomenon after all....
http://www.stanleyunwin.com/audio.htm
Admittedly this recording was made many years ago, and the speaker (a certain Stanley Unwin) has long since picked up his golden harp apparently, so backwards speak must have been with us all the while and it's not a new phenomenon after all....
http://www.stanleyunwin.com/audio.htm
No, "if .... were" is correct; the conditional takes on an unusual tense. Some people will say "if .... was", though.
<<If the universe were to collapse, would we start talking backwards? >>
We'd also hear backwards, so nobody would appear to be talking backwards :)
We'd also hear backwards, so nobody would appear to be talking backwards :)
The universe is unlikely to collapse. It's more likely to go through a big freeze several trillions of years from now.
As Guest notes, the idea of a "Big Crunch" at the end of the universe has generally been rejected in favor of some kind of endless expansion and heat death.
<<As Guest notes, the idea of a "Big Crunch" at the end of the universe has generally been rejected in favor of some kind of endless expansion and heat death. >>
I'd take any predictions like this with a grain of salt. When I was in school (decades ago) the "steady state" and "big bang" theories were both viable competitors. Fourty years from now, the "Big Bang" theory may well be losing out to something new.
I'd take any predictions like this with a grain of salt. When I was in school (decades ago) the "steady state" and "big bang" theories were both viable competitors. Fourty years from now, the "Big Bang" theory may well be losing out to something new.
Well, now that dark matter and dark energy are putting the cosmological constant back into the equation, it's just now occurring to us how little we really know. Makes it more fun!