If the big bang really did happen despite the TINY chances of doing so; doesnt that mean there is a MUCH greater chance of it happening again as there being WAY more particles in the universe? What could happen then?
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There is the same amount of matter in the universe now as there has always been, I'm not sure why you think that there is a tiny chance of the big bang having happened? Oh and if you had thought about this at all before you asked the question you would realise that in order to have another big bang we will first need to have a big crunch.
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But Burn (i cant comment...) wasnt the big bang activated by an individual atom?!
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Tiny Chances + infinite time = almost certainty of occurrence. :) Most particle interactions in the universe are incredibly low energy compared to the big bang. However an interesting diversion of M-theory is that the energy from the big bang could have come from two membranes colliding in 11th dimensional space. The idea is that our universe floats on a membrane or brane in the 11th dimension. So do other universes on other branes. We are incredibly close to these other branes and what if two collided? This could transfer enough energy to trigger a big bang, inflation etc etc. And this cuold happen at any time. Possibly then the structure of our universe would be shattered and a new structure would form but I truly have no idea there! If another universe was created "within" this universe it would create it's own space so it would very quickly pop out of "our existence" and into its own I would guess. I am sure there are some physicists working on this idea now.
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