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Collapse of the universe coming sooner than expected according to new research
AOL ^ | March 26th 2015 | unattributed

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 ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: bigbang; colossalcrash; steadystate; stringtheory
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To: Moonman62

Guess the authors won’t be around if/when their theory doesn’t pan out.


61 posted on 03/27/2015 1:06:02 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: SunkenCiv

Al Gore and Obama will be making money somehow off of this scientific scam.


62 posted on 03/27/2015 1:06:06 PM PDT by YukonGreen
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To: SandyInSeattle

Depends on how much of an angry busybody your neighbor is. ;’)


63 posted on 03/27/2015 1:08:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Darksheare

I like it! If the universe is collapsing, I can take away Tom’s computer and make him MOVE OUT!


64 posted on 03/27/2015 1:08:42 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)
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To: sand88
Ok, Al Gore gave me the exact date: April 12, 25,023,344,812 at 10:14pm

Thanks. I appreciate the info. Now I can sleep soundly with no worries.

65 posted on 03/27/2015 1:09:41 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: TigersEye

That black hole in the whitehouse is sucking everything in!


66 posted on 03/27/2015 1:10:57 PM PDT by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: Tax-chick

“I’m crushing your universe! Crush! Crush!”


67 posted on 03/27/2015 1:11:36 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I told you CO2 was the root of all evil.


68 posted on 03/27/2015 1:13:21 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (E)
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To: Darksheare

I had that dream!


69 posted on 03/27/2015 1:13:33 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)
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To: Tax-chick

Not my fault, I hope.


70 posted on 03/27/2015 1:16:37 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Tax-chick

It won’t matter how far away you make him move ... he’ll be back in a nano-second.


71 posted on 03/27/2015 1:20:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: jwalsh07
I told you CO2 was the root of all evil.

That is a misreading of the Bible of Gore. It is the love of CO2 that is the root of all evil. That's why it is OK for liberals to drive cars and fly all over the world but a mortal sin for a Republican to even own one gas powered weed eater.

72 posted on 03/27/2015 1:26:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: Darksheare

I said, let there be Bud Light.


73 posted on 03/27/2015 1:29:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: SunkenCiv

And for some reason a Light Bud showed up instead.


74 posted on 03/27/2015 1:30:17 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

Probably not.


75 posted on 03/27/2015 1:32:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)
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To: TigersEye

Oh, great.


76 posted on 03/27/2015 1:32:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)
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To: Darksheare
Early indications suggest the collapse will kick in in a few tens of billions of years, but we have yet to properly verify this.

The problem is when we're looking at the expanding universe we're looking back in time. While we're doing that the future is rushing in at us faster than we can see it coming.

So just when we think the whole thing is billions of years fro

77 posted on 03/27/2015 1:32:39 PM PDT by ArGee (Even the American people aren't THAT stupid. - No one ever)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not until the Cubs win a World Series.


78 posted on 03/27/2015 1:36:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SunkenCiv

Tens of billions of years. Hey, I had better get busy on buying more freeze-dried food supplies.....


79 posted on 03/27/2015 1:38:44 PM PDT by expat2
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To: SunkenCiv
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.

That's ok. When the omega point is reached life will be able to exist forever when life is defined using the language of information theory, and forever is defined using relativity theory.

80 posted on 03/27/2015 1:41:58 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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