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The Universe Is Disappearing, And There's Nothing We Can Do To Stop It
Forbes ^ | August 17, 2018 | Ethan Siegel

Posted on 08/18/2018 8:10:32 PM PDT by EdnaMode

It's been nearly a century since scientists first theorized that the Universe was expanding, and that the farther away a galaxy was from us, the faster it appears to recede. This isn't because galaxies are physically moving away from us, but rather because the Universe is full of gravitationally-bound objects, and the fabric of space that those objects reside in is expanding.

But this picture, which held sway from the 1920s onward, has been recently revised. It's been only 20 years since we first realized that this expansion was speeding up, and that as time goes on, individual galaxies will appear to recede away from us faster and faster. In time, they'll become unreachable, even if we journeyed towards them at the speed of light. The Universe is disappearing, and there's nothing we can do about it.

When you look out at a star whose light arrives after traveling towards you for 100 years, you're seeing a star that's 100 light years away, due to the fact that the speed of light is finite. But when you look out at a galaxy whose light arrives after traveling towards you for a journey of 100 million years, you're not looking at a galaxy that's 100 million light years distant. Rather, you're seeing a galaxy that's significantly farther away than that!

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; creationism; crevo; doomed; edwinhubble; haltonarp; hubbleconstant; langoliers; ohnoes; runforthehills; science; space; stringtheory; teotwawki; theuniverse; universe; wereallgonnadie; xraytelescopy; yikes
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To: EdnaMode

The universe is contracting because we are but a drop on a microscope slide in an alien laboratory. The slide has been placed near a window and we are drying out....


61 posted on 08/19/2018 12:25:19 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: EdnaMode

Can’t wait for the next revision. And the one after that. Science theories are fun, they change like the weather.


62 posted on 08/19/2018 12:33:55 AM PDT by robel
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To: EdnaMode

I was under the impression that science tells us matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Isn’t the universe matter? Gas and dust? How can it be destroyed if it can’t be created and vice versa? And how then is the universe disappearing?


63 posted on 08/19/2018 1:21:33 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Vince Ferrer
“So that's it then, we're all going to die’’. Yeah. Some point sooner or later. Bummer, huh? Guess I can forget about Giselle Bundchen ever calling me up for date. *sigh*.
64 posted on 08/19/2018 1:24:32 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: BEJ

Didn’t Edwin Hubble prove that the universe was actually expanding?


65 posted on 08/19/2018 1:26:10 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Yeah, yeah, you’re right! Blazers are red. They’re red! And sometimes they’re blue... like Blue Blazes... er Blazers.. or whatever... yeah, Imposters! I’ve seen ‘em too!.


66 posted on 08/19/2018 1:29:15 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: EdnaMode

So, basically, Zeno was right.

Might as well stay home.

If it’s still there.


67 posted on 08/19/2018 1:33:02 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: katana
You’ve hit the nail on the head.
At the Big Bang the universe was expanding at nearly the speed of light and has been slowing since. The farther back we look, the faster objects appear to travel because that was their expansion rate at that time. The expansion rate of nearby objects is zero which is likely the same everywhere unless contraction already started.
68 posted on 08/19/2018 2:05:25 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: EdnaMode

Unless we develop the capacity for intergalactic travel and head out to other galaxy groups and clusters, humanity will forever be stuck in our local group.

....

75% of stars are red dwarfs. Red dwarfs will shine for trillions of years. There will be energy available for a long time, and in comparison the Universe is still young.


69 posted on 08/19/2018 2:22:02 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: EdnaMode

Will the CMB be visible in the future?

Here’s a related article that crazy people like me find interesting:

https://www.space.com/11380-big-bang-evidence-universe-trillion-years.html


70 posted on 08/19/2018 2:50:34 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: katana

None of that really matters as we, and all the rest of the known universe, are moving rapidly towards the Great Attractor - a mass so dense that everything is pulled toward it. So in some millions on billions of years from now we will finally arrive at our final destination ...


71 posted on 08/19/2018 4:06:14 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: reg45

His being hidden doesn’t stop me from bugging Him when I misplace the key to a car, truck, tractor, motorcycle, whatever.........which is not infrequent at my age!

And He is so full of mercy and love that He always (eventually) answers my cry! Missing my #1 key to my car right now! Missing for last week!


72 posted on 08/19/2018 4:19:29 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: blam

Delta refigured the miles. Sorry, you lost most of them.


73 posted on 08/19/2018 4:24:44 AM PDT by steve8714 ("My name is Rod Blagojevich and I need cash now!" (all) "Call JB Pritzker, 87DirtyCashNOW!")
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To: Celerity
"They [the author] read another article, didn’t understand it and then wrote “their own” article. I see this all the time.

Bingo! Every time I see an article about "the fabric of space", I immediately conclude that the author doesn't know what he is talking about. It's even worse if he writes about "the fabric of space/time". It simply proves to me that the author is hiding his ignorance behind ill defined jargon.

74 posted on 08/19/2018 4:52:43 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: jcon40

Only in the most theoretical labs, and there are many, is consciousness consciously considered. It is the fabric of God consciousness and the most essential stuff of intergalactic travel. It is the key to entanglement and is essential to understanding string theory.
With expanded consciousness we are able to know creation. In mind and thought we can travel the expanses of infinite space and time without effort, instantaneously.
There is no death in consciousness. There is the oneness of reality.


75 posted on 08/19/2018 5:44:56 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Here is a link to my old Blazer

https://cjneil82.smugmug.com/Project-K5/i-2zQs3T5/A


76 posted on 08/19/2018 5:51:13 AM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: EdnaMode

Dark energy gives us the Big Rip, which is a totally cool way to end God’s story. It will be visible. You will literally see the galaxies dissolving one by one, then the stars, then the planets, then the Earth itself.

On YouTube see New Estimates May Adjust Universe’s Date for “Big Rip” Fate at https://youtube.com/watch?v=tdE7gUWddpU and Dark Energy Are We Alone at https://youtube.com/watch?v=VNnXqGRQxow

Jesus said the Earth and the heavens will pass away, and it will be spectacular.


77 posted on 08/19/2018 5:56:15 AM PDT by Gideon7
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To: EdnaMode

78 posted on 08/19/2018 5:58:32 AM PDT by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: EdnaMode

The big bang was a one time event and speaks so loudly of God’s design that the atheists now believe in parallel universes. :)

There’s too much fine-tuning required for life to exist not only on Earth, but our solar system is special too, so is our Milky Way galaxy, and frankly so is the universe. Things like the universal constants have to be just right or life can’t ever exist anyway.

So when I was little the atheists came up with the oscillating universe to explain away the need for God to make things just right for life. That was the belief that the big bang is repeated endlessly, and that each big bang re-writes the laws of physics until by random chance a universe is created that can support life. This was taught by the time I went through school

But two decades ago the Hubble Telescope could see far enough away to realize that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, not contracting. This means that the stuff spread out over the universe isn’t preparing to slow down the expansion and eventually come back to one point and repeat the big bang. The big bang was a One Time Event. Video game consoles have a reset button if things don’t turn out like you want. But the universe had to be just right the first time because there won’t be a second chance.

Want to nerd up on this on your own? Google up the universal constants, which don’t change from place to place or from time to time. They’re the same always everywhere. Also, go to www.reasons.org to see some Christians who are old earthers and read their creation model.


79 posted on 08/19/2018 6:02:03 AM PDT by Tell It Right (Me driving a truck doesn't cause terrorism in the middle east.)
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To: EdnaMode
Liberals would want to raise taxes to 'fund' a study to 'fix' the problem, after yelling that it is Trump's fault.😀
80 posted on 08/19/2018 6:03:30 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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