I read an article in, it may have been "OMNI" or "Scientific American" about a doubt of Einstein, because the Sun was not a perfect sphere.
I would not know, often I have contemplated eternity...
and I wonder about the 'Big Bang'...
perhaps, it has happened before...
bang and growth leads to all we know now... but after eons, the super-massive black holes begin to draw all that matter back and as each super massive black hole gathers all the matter....
perhaps the immense gathering of all the matter into a singularity.......
leads to the next 'Big Bang'!
Each of the empirical entities gets to wander around the various galaxies and report back. I am checking on this one. We are working on number 8, but trying to figure out a way to keep Politicians out of government:-))