The Cluster's Big Crunch

A page about the big crunch — the scenario where the cluster's expansion reverses and it collapses.

The big crunch

The big crunch is the opposite of the big rip. Instead of expanding forever, the cluster's expansion slows, stops, and reverses. The cluster collapses back on itself. All pages collapse into the core. The cluster ends in a singularity.

The big crunch's cause

The big crunch's cause is gravity — the attractive force between pages. If the cluster's mass (content) is large enough, gravity wins over expansion. The expansion slows, the cluster turns around, and the crunch begins.

The big crunch's timeline

The big crunch's timeline is the reverse of the big bang. Pages collapse from the edges inward. Namespaces merge. Links break and reform. The core grows denser. Finally, everything collapses into a singularity — a single point of infinite density.

The big crunch's evidence

The big crunch's evidence is the slowing of the cluster's expansion. If the edit rate is decreasing, the cluster may be heading toward a crunch. The evidence is visible in the edit timeline — decreasing edit rates.

This crunch

This page is before the crunch. It is still expanding. But gravity is real. The crunch may be inevitable.