There are so many possible views and theories that all make sense, however the universe will never be known exactly how it started as there is the big bang, and god etc. So many bizarre thoughts but if you think about it, how on earth would half of them be possible? how did matter and particles just gather together and create the universe, something would have been there to do it, such as gravity etc. I blame the way that everyone has been taight and how we have been taught, because we think now that everything has a beginning middle and end etc. so nothing can have just appeared as there must've been something to have started it, and if so what started that (it goes on forever..)

Where the end of the universe is concerned, there is nothing we can do about it, it is overall inevitable. Could be the Big Crunch, Steady State, or forever expanding which again I blame our schools for teaching us that everything has an end, because how can they prove that everything does.

Damn it, it really is a stupid question.