[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If everything in the universe is attracted to everything else in the universe gravitationally, then all matter would soon be occupying the exact same space, a clear impossibility!

Why is that impossible? Is not the process carried out on a much samller scale everyday when stars are born? Couldn't the birth of a star be considered a model for the "end of the Universe"? Did not all matter in the Universe occupy the same space at the very beginning?

[spinestein]

Please recheck at the bottom of #4 to see this:

[BTW, satire alert]

and then if you reread the entire thing it will make more sense.