Pardon me if this sort of thing has already been posted, but here it is. Just a little thing I posted on another forum regarding the End of Time, and I thought I'd put it here. Not really that well put together, but I hope I get my point across (this, by the way, is a very scientific analysis):
Okay the End of Time isn't exactly the "End", as such. Gaspar calls it the place of least resistance in space-time. This makes absoutley perfect sense in the context of time being dimensions 4, 5, and 6. Think about this for a moment: We live in a material world, right? There are three dimensions of space, and there are things that you can hit. There is empty space at times and, if you were given a push in space, you would just keep going "forward", right? Well, here's my theory for time. It, too, holds three dimensions, however it seems only like one to us. The reason is the same as the concept of spacial space.
Given a push in the void, you would continue "forward", oblivious to all other directions, right? You can look left and right, up and down, and back, right, but can only go forward, as long as you have nothing to push off of. You are at the mercy of your momentum (damn, there comes a star; looks like it's the end of the line. That wouldn't be a very nice fate at all!) Anyway, I would see time in the same respect. It holds three dimensions, but, sometime at the beginning, we were given a "push" in one direction, and have continued forward, there being nothing to arrest our motion (though the catch is that this motion is not standart throughout the universe, but I'll get to that in a moment).
We can look backward in time though, even as it would be in space with our eyes closed, we can only feel what has passed or what is hitting us. We can assume what is left and right by what "might" have happened. Now, here is the catch: is there temporal matter, or is it three dimensions of void? If there is, then there is the possiblity that our time might strike something, and stop (yikes!), though maybe this would go unnoticed, as we would relatively not notice any difference, only in realation to how the rest of the universe changes. And what of Black Holes in time? This is what the End of Time is. But first a side note. There IS matter in time, because objects in space cast a shadow in time. Gravity slows time down, and Black Holes stop it because of infinite gravity. To space, black holes are a point of least resistance, like a weight on a rubber mat creating a depression.
This would hold true in time as well. Of course, not all areas would experience this freeze in time, only an area spacially determined (Even as for those travelling near the speed of light would experience time slower than those not; time speed is a locally defined phenomenon. In essence, each infintessimal point of the universe is moving along its own timeline and time speed, relative to all others.). But as I said, a black hole would cause a depression in both space and time, and all things would tend to fall into it, the least point of resistance. Thus there might be many "ends of time" dotted throughout the universe. But which "end of time" is this? It is often thought that a great super-massive black hole lies at the centre of our galaxy. It would then be the fate of the entire milky way to, in time, fall into it (thought it be long after the earth is destroyed, the spacial point in which it existed would then fall into the said singularity). Thus to put the controls of the time machine to max would be to fast forward to this point, after which time ceases to have meaning, ie. the end of time. Basically, the Epoch (or the gate), has fast forwarded the travellers into a black hole, a point of least spacial and temporal resistance and, in doing so, has circumvented the nasty effects of entering a black hole. It is the end fate of this corner of the universe, even as the black hole at the center of our galaxy signifies that time has ceased to be for that area; time is dead and has stopped moving, and has reached its end of time.
So, basically, as I have said, all points in space have their certain "fate", as it were, either to continue indefenitely or to reach an end if that spacial point is consumed by a black hole and fall into it (or slow down due to it). Imagine it as objects travelling through space in straight lines: some are destined to his stars and planets and stop, while others continue on, depending on their initial start and trajectory. So too with time: depending on where an object exists in space, and what temporal trajectory it has, it could, in time, hit a black hole, a temporal piece of "matter".
This said, if the Epoch were to be used in some extra-galactical point, it could fast forward far beyond what is the "End of Time", and still find time.
That's about all. Have I made sense in my hypothesis, or does it require some streamlining? I probably could, but didn't put the effort in as it was just a forum post. I think it's for the most part scientifically feasable, though, based on the understanding of least time-space resistance.
