Collapse of the universe coming sooner than expected according to new research

AOL ^ | March 26th 2015 | unattributed

[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.

[null and void]

Undead Thread material?
“Join us as we collapse the universe”?

I'd wait a few days
It's not quite crunch time...

[Darksheare]

Yeah!

[NoCmpromiz]

the “solution” offered by the global warmunists

Well..

Their's is a two part solution. The second part is also stated in this article...

the team of scientists claim they've found the cause our impending doom ... but they need to do a bit more research.

Being translated into the vernacular it means "We need more taxpayer's money.."

[dware]

You see? THIS is what happens when we elect Republicans...

[samtheman]

The universe is expanding, therefore it’s going to collapse.

The climate is cooling, therefore it’s going to over-heat.

Got it.

[Ray76]

Then I don’t have to worry about climate change. Whew!

[Darksheare]

Actually we are still in the February thread.
No suitable candidate offered itself to us when March rolled around.
:-/

[Moonman62]

[Politicalkiddo]

“Early indications suggest the collapse will kick in in a few tens of billions of years, but we have yet to properly verify this.”

Oh, no. Only tens of billions of years. How will I cope?

[Darksheare]

AH, yes.
I forgot about the “need more funding to study this” part.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It’s that darned globull waring again!

[AU72]

It thought the expanding universe theory was settled science?

[Know et al]

Do I have time to buy some beer first?

Sure, just don't buy any green bananas.

[mulligan]

The failure of the worlds educational systems is catastrophic.

[Not A Snowbird]

I wanna play!

[TigersEye]

Black hole universe won't you come
and wash away the atoms?

[Know et al]

Not to worry, Obama will write an executive order.

[Darksheare]

Sign up with the SunkenCiv/UT Universe Perma-collapsation Services and for a small nominal fee, we’ll collapse the universe for you!

[Blood of Tyrants]

It’s that darned globull warming again!

[sand88]

Means nothing until I have a date.

Ok, Al Gore gave me the exact date: April 12, 25,023,344,812 at 10:14pm