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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of three possible end points of the expanding universe according to the Big Bang theory, when the expansion of space-time initiated at the Big Bang decelerates to a stop and then contracts, causing the universe to collapse.
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- proper noun astronomy The
hypothetic eventual collapse of theuniverse that would happen if it did not continue toexpand .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I can't wait for the Big Bang Reunion -- or, as scientists prefer to call it, the Big Crunch -- when we'll be able to find out!
NASA Hubble spots oldest galaxy yet Alexandra Petri 2010
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If there is enough matter, space will be positively curved (like a sphere) and will eventually collapse into a Big Crunch.
The future of the universe Sean 2006
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However, the Big Crunch would be the end of the universe and of time itself.
Remarks By The President At Millennium Lecture Series ITY National Archives 1998
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When he wasn't in his working persona of Big Crunch, the troll was remarkably accurate in his reports and observations.
Sweet Myth-tery of Life Asprin, Robert 1994
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How can government ensure that the information marketplace emerging on the other side of the Big Crunch will permit everyone to be able to compete with everyone else for the opportunity to provide any service to all willing customers?
Remarks By Vice President Al Gore ITY National Archives 1994
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When he's working, Chumley goes by the name of Big Crunch and does a Neanderthal that's the envy of half the barbarians at the Bazaar.
Myth-Ing Persons Asprin, Robert 1984
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Regardless of which of these scenarios actually played out, Big Crunch, keep going, stopping, one thing was pretty much assumed to be true in all cases: the expansion would be slowing.
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Regardless of which of these scenarios actually played out, Big Crunch, keep going, stopping, one thing was pretty much assumed to be true in all cases: the expansion would be slowing.
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Regardless of which of these scenarios actually played out, Big Crunch, keep going, stopping, one thing was pretty much assumed to be true in all cases: the expansion would be slowing.
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If the mass of the neutrino is 1 eV that would mean that neutrinos account for more mass in the Universe than all of the protons and neutrons put together easily supplying the "dark matter" necessary for the Big Crunch.
democracyarsenal.org 2009
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