In the first week of this year, I was discussing an existential question with a Muslim colleague at work, he asked what I believed in and I stated that I was an atheist and if worse came to worst, then I have no problem with going to any hell that any religion shoves at me.
I stated I did not believe in any religion and as far as I was concerned I believed the following:-
There was nothing - then there was an almighty bang - and over the following few billion years, planets were created and are still evolving (13 billion + and counting), during this evolution black holes are created (and have been proven), these suck and compress the hovered pieces into a small tight single point, eventually all the black holes will coalesce into one super black hole and hover up the remaining parts.
All this material will not be able to fit into the same small space and would therefore eventually become so unstable that it explodes - therefore another big bang and it all starts again - and again - and again - ad infinite m