Imagine our civilization billions of years in the future, where the universes rapid expansion has slowed down and completely reversed. A backwards big bang. We have become a type three civilization, and have even acted upon methods to stealing power from rotating black holes. Imagine if we also figured out a way to force reality to stay open, enough so that we can live on even after the rest of reality has been crushed down into the space of a single atom. Imagine the story's of people who experienced this, and of what happens after. What if it was really a big bounce, not a bang? We could witness the big bang with our own eyes in a little pocket of our own reality.