KnowraBig CrunchLinked fromLinked fromThe 6 pages that link to Big Crunch, each with the reason it gives.All 6Compared with 6Big RipCompared with: It reverses cosmic expansion rather than driving it toward unbounded acceleration.Heat death of the universeCompared with: It replaces endless dilution with a recollapsing universe.Cyclic modelCompared with: A Big Crunch is one possible ending, but by itself does not establish another cycle.Chronology of the universeCompared with: It contrasts with the observed expansion that defines the universe’s present era.Timeline of the far futureCompared with: It is a contrasting endpoint that current observations do not favor.Ultimate fate of the universeCompared with: It is the classic alternative in which gravity eventually halts and reverses expansion.