All entirely theoretical, of course. Yet, I'm haunted by how this harkens back to the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Hugh Everett in the 1950s, which essentially postulated that all outcomes to a given event are realized, and not just the outcome we witness here.
There have been many variations of this since. However, M-Theory has since rekindled its spark in me in considering what The Bible, and specifically Jesus meant about "eternal life".
Theoretically, as we die, we are dead here. Yet in an infinity of "parallel" universes our life goes on unaware of any break in its earlier continuity. In some such "settings" we may be young or old, perhaps just born, yet there nonetheless, else any other universe would not apply to us not being in it.
In this sense we would never truly "die" but go on forever, one previous "death" in another sub-system after another, one of those "lives" right here and now.
Though I realize God sets those parameters, who's mechanisms we'll never really know until our souls are fully, infused in Him, which just as possibly may never be. But we'll know Him and those aspects He has prepared for us to once again know each other. And that's more than enough for me.
When any’thing’ approaches the Planck length, it is being arranged in such a way that it is essentially in a ‘Bose-Einstein’ condensate arrangement and quantumly connected to every other bit of matter in the Universe. Since matter is nothing more than condensed energy (energy captured with a pinch of space and a whisp of time), why not consider black holes the enegine generating the expansion of spacetime?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett_III
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hugh-everett-biography/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/