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"Forever" is a long time, and most scientists are not arrogant enough to think we know everything. For example, we don't know whether the universe is really expanding (although that seems the simplest explanation) and we don't know if it will ever reverse and collapse again.

Logically, if the universe expands forever AND all the mass that will ever exist came into being in the big bang, then eventually when all the existing stars have burnt out, the universe will become cold and dark. We don't know that there is no "new" mass coming into being; Sir Fred Hoyle, who derisively named the "big bang", believed in a "steady state" universe in which new matter might come into existence in the space between the stars.

The total history of stellar physics and cosmology is scarcely 100 years old; I suspect that we barely have begun to suspect the real truth about what's happening. Keep an open mind.

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