Brilliant theories here, I was wondering with your hypothesis perhaps rather than the dissolution point - what if we are speeding up and the big bang is the start of the cycle and we are rushing towards that.

It is hard to explain what I am thinking, but I will try as best I can :) (nerding out a little here)

Imagine that we are accelerating out from the big bang, but eventually without slowing all mass in the universe will all return to this originating point and that is the actual cause of the big bang and the cycle will begin again - sending all matter back out at an ever increasing speed until the cycle is again completed.

I absolutely believe in the cyclical nature of the universe and in all things really, we are just perhaps incapable of understanding cycles this large - it's easy to see the life cycle of a fly and understand all it's complexities because we can witness it multiple times in our life to learn.

With the universe however, I believe humanity and possibly other forms of life ( not only aliens if they exist but ancient egyptians, minoans etc) had their cycles end to soon to learn of the complexities and until we can learn to better pass on knowledge to the next generation I don't see our cycle gaining much better grasp or understanding of how it works.

I think we may have once had the ability of shared memories, it's been witnessed in animals I believe - where one group of a species experiences some life altering event and learns not to go near something or eat a specific food etc - and then inexplicably a different group of animals of the same species seems to have gained that knowledge even though these two groups never interacted.

It's all trippy to think about, if we could pass our knowledge on in this matter I believe we may have a chance of someday fully understanding what it is we are dealing with when it comes to the universe and time.