Sunday 20 October 2019

dark energy - In a Big Crunch, would there be more mass than at the Big Bang?


I found multiple questions where it is stated that dark energy increases as the universe expands. Assuming a big crunch scenario, will this dark energy "go away" again as the size of the universe decreases again, or will there be more energy (=mass) at the Big Crunch than at the Big Bang?




Answer



Point A) The same mechanism that causes the amount of dark energy to increase as the universe expands will cause the amount of dark energy to decrease if the universe contracts.


Point B) A universe that includes an increasing amount of dark energy due to the same mechanism that exists in our universe (in theory) makes it nearly impossible for the universe to begin to contract (not completely impossible in general, but it is for the universe we think we live in). Thus, there will $\textit{probably}~^1$ never be a Big Crunch (unless we're talking about the chocolate bar. I'm led to believe that already exists).


$^1$(probably allows for the possibility that the universe we think we live in is not the universe we actually live in)


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