[Rick Lee]

I happened to be watching an episode of Cosmos just last night - yes really. Sagan was talking about the possibility of one universe vs. oscillating universes, by which it all contracts back to a singularity and then there's another big bang and the process repeats itself over tens of billions of years. So far, we all know the universe is still expanding. The question is whether there is enough mass out there for gravity to reverse the expansion and contract it all back down. If this is how it works, then there is an endless cycle of big bangs and big crunches. I wonder if God meant for that to happen or just created physics (the only truly uniform set of laws that apply to everyone, everything, everywhere) and then stepped back.