Also, the flat plate representing the earth cannot be round. In the biblical account, the earth has four corners. Hawking's description of the Big Crunch may or may not be true. In the past, I have visualized the first space ship into the remote regions of the universe. Here it encounters a flat plate with a button.
Human curiosity being what it is, someone pushes the button.
Of course the result is to be expected. The whole universe falls apart. Another fantasy is that the universe is a computer with no inputs and programmed for self destruction. There may be more truth than poetry in this view. I hope to be somewhere else when it happens.