Posted on 03/27/2015 12:33:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
You've heard of the Big Bang, but what about the "Colossal Crash?" Get ready, because it might be coming sooner than you think ... relatively speaking.
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters a group of physicists have theorized a mechanism for "cosmological collapse" which predicts the universe will at some point stop expanding and then collapse back onto itself, destroying us and pretty much all matter.
The idea has been floating around the scientific community in one form or another for a while now, but the latest paper is noteworthy because its numbers and models suggest that collapse is "imminent" -- at least on a cosmological scale.
"The fact that we are seeing dark energy now could be taken as an indication of impending doom, and we are trying to look at the data to put some figures on the end date," Antonio Padilla at the University of Nottingham, one of the paper's authors, told Phys.org. "Early indications suggest the collapse will kick in in a few tens of billions of years, but we have yet to properly verify this."
Our universe is currently in a period of accelerated expansion so we have nothing to worry about for the moment, but in the paper's conclusion, the team of scientists claim they've found the cause our impending doom ... but they need to do a bit more research.
(Excerpt) Read more at aol.com ...
We need a Universal Collapse Tax!!!
Hogwash! The universe ends when a Tralfamadorian is testing rocket fuel and presses the wrong button.
That does seem to be the “solution” offered by the global warmunists at every chance they get to espouse it.
Yeah!
We got first dibs!
So the science is settled that we don’t need to worry about global warming because in the LONG LONG run it won’t matter anyway...
Gotcha!
Next time a lib whines about gorebull warming, I will bring this up, hehe hehe !
And it fell to the basement where they became enthralled by basement cat!
Does this mean the windows won’t need to be washed this Spring?
I’m going to put all I have in Walmart at the end of 1974.
[ We need a Universal Collapse Tax!!! ]
If the Universe Collapses, it is “Universal Warming”
If the Universe Keeps Expanding, it is “Universal Cooling”
If the Universe Ends, it is “Universal Climate Change”
Obviously Humans are Causing it!
Hogwash! The universe ends when a Tralfamadorian is testing rocket fuel and presses the wrong button.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_metastability_event#Vacuum_metastability_event
PANIC!!! It travels at C so We won’t see it coming!
... in which case, the Planck Temperature moment of infinite heat causes the Big Bang to reoccur, rebuilding the universe anew. Like a firing piston. Lather, rinse, repeat, forever. The same physics model of our observable universe is regenerated infinitely.
Therefore, as in the case of infinite monkeys sat before infinite typewriters eventually creating the works of William Shakespeare, the consciousness that you now possess in reading this has lived before, and will again, precisely as you now sit with your exact same surroundings. It's just a matter of time, time which resets on every new generation of the universe and it will never stop.
But we've had this conversation before. And will again. You may go through countless other lives as any number of exotic things in far off parts of the universe, but we'll eventually meet here again just as we are now.
I merely presume that God gives us infinite chances to rise to the next level, whatever that may be. Something outside our continually collapsing and rebuilding universe, I wonder. Do a lousy job of following God's law and you have to start back at square one.
Nobody expects the collapse of the universe - um, I mean, nobody expects the Spanish inquisition...
Do I still have time to mow the lawn?
Since when, Sparky? The only 'evidence' of dark matter comes from lensing and that is only based upon observed mass of galactic clusters. Lots more out there to be discovered, but dark matter is still the unicorn of astronomy.
Wait til Al Gore hears about this.
Means nothing until I have a date.
damn that global warming!
THANK GOD! I got tired of waiting for that blasted meteor.
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