>>16723505 (OP)>>16723532Can't remember the author from the 1990s who proposed this but the belief i've firmly held onto since HS is the universe operates on donut theory. Why it isn't the dominant theory on how existence operates given the knowledge we have now is baffling, albeit i've read more articles in recent years coming around to the idea.
Basically the old decrepit zones of the universe, likely to be in the centre of the universe decays first, black holes form, matter is consumed and these black holes expand. On the edge of the universe expansion continues but in (mostly) finite amounts limited to what energy was released in the big bang. This leads to a ''donut'' shaped universe in which nothing in the middle exists and nothing outside it exists. This goes on for eons as the livable universe stretches thin like a ring bubble underwater until the twilight moment our universe becomes so thin everything begins degrading apart as the black holes forming inside the ring and the greater abyss absorbs whats left spontaneously creating the ''white hole'' release of energy leading to another big bang.
We can still ponder how the universe came to be in its original iteration, but each subsequent ''big bang'' event has followed this rule.
