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Great question. I can tell you that nobody knows for sure. The "current best answer" is that there is insufficient mass to cause the expanding universe to stop and come back together. In fact the expansion is accelerating!

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Why do unopened water bottles collapse?

Unopened water bottles collapse due to changes in air pressure. When the air pressure outside the bottle is higher than the pressure inside, the bottle can collapse as the external pressure pushes in on the bottle, causing it to shrink.


What makes a bottle collapse?

A bottle can collapse if there is a significant change in pressure inside the bottle compared to the pressure outside, causing the walls of the bottle to buckle inwards. This can happen if the bottle is not able to withstand the pressure differential, or if it is made of a weak material. Additionally, extreme temperatures or physical impacts can also cause a bottle to collapse.


What is a synonym for disintegrate?

because i asked for the synonym for the word disintegrate not for is......so how am i suppose to know what is true or not?


Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?

Maybe. Why? Surely if I were to smell said rag I wou---.............*collapse. faint. silence*


Why would a tightly closed empty water bottle crush itself?

This answer presumes that "empty" means the bottle has no water in it, but does have air in it.In this case the bottle would collapse (or partly collapse) if the temperature inside the bottle dropped to a lower temperature causing the air inside to shrink, or if the bottle was taken to a place of higher air pressure (such as taking the bottle from a mountain peak to the base of the mountain.The bottle would also collapse at some point of evacuation if "empty" means the bottle was evacuated of water and air. The point of collapse, in this case, would depend on the physical construction of the bottle - ie, whether it was made of steel, plastic or glass

Related Questions

Will one black hole eventually swallow all others?

If time were to go on infinitely, the universe were to stop expanding, and the universe didn't collapse on itself or tear apart, (a lot of prerequisites, I know) then, theoretically, yes.


What is the opposite of expanding a folder?

the opposite of expanding


What is it called when the universe will collapse inward?

The collapse of the universe inward is called "the Big Crunch" hypothesis. It suggests that the expansion of the universe will eventually halt and reverse, leading to a collapse of all matter back into a hot, dense state. However, current observations suggest that the universe is actually expanding at an accelerating rate, which makes a Big Crunch less likely.


Will the expanding universe collapse?

That's a possibility; but the observational evidence shows that the Universe is expanding faster and faster - and it seems likely that this tendency will continue in the future. It seems likely that the Universe will continue expanding exponentially, doubling in size every 10 billion years or so. Thus, it doesn't seem as if it will collapse again.


What if the WTC towers did not collapse?

If the WTC towers did not collapse, they would eventually be due to the extensive damage beyond repair


What are some questions about space that have not been answered yet?

What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? Are there other forms of life beyond Earth? How do black holes behave at the center of galaxies? What is the ultimate fate of the universe - will it continue expanding indefinitely or eventually collapse?


What is the difference between big bang theory and big crunch theory?

The big bang theory is the explosion that started the universe. Where as the big crunch is the theory where the universe will eventually contract and become increasingly clumped and eventaully all mater would collapse into black holes which would then coalesce producing a unified black hole or Big Crunch singularity.


Did the empire bureaucracy become to top heavy eventually causing the empire to collapse?

No.


Any important question on physics?

Will the Universe continue expanding forever or will it collapse?


Did the empire bureaucracy become too heavy eventually causing the empire to collapse upon itself?

No.


Did the bureaucracy become too top heavy eventually causing the empire to collapse upon itself?

No.


How does water affect structures?

The structure absorbs the water slowly, causing it to weaken and eventually to collapse.