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To: PhilipFreneau
The universe is out of control, in a runaway acceleration. Eventually all intelligent life will face the final doom—the big freeze.

Pure science fiction.

Which part? It's well-established now that the expansion of the universe is in an acceleration phase. If the acceleration increase over time, the eventual fate of the universe does indeed appear to be a big freeze, and maybe even what's been called a 'big rip', in which all matter is ripped apart the expansion force.

54 posted on 01/21/2005 9:57:15 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

Brian Greene says that the force that caused inflation and the force now causing acclerating expansion is no more and no less than gravity. Apparently we do not understand gravity, Newton or not.


58 posted on 01/21/2005 9:59:56 AM PST by RightWhale (Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
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To: PhilipFreneau; snarks_when_bored

'increases' for 'increase' in #54.


59 posted on 01/21/2005 10:00:50 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

>> Which part?

Every part. Every thing he said is science fiction.

>> It's well-established now that the expansion of the universe is in an acceleration phase.

"Well-established", but still speculation. There is absolutely no proof that red-shift holds-up over millions of light years. When one considers that one of the nearest companion galaxies to our galaxy, Andromeda, is about 2 million light years away, and when one considers that we have no clue how Andromeda changed in the past 2 million years, then one must assume that every predictive theory is, at best, conjecture.


63 posted on 01/21/2005 10:09:24 AM PST by PhilipFreneau (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. -- Psalms 14: 1, 53:1)
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Here's an article (from March, 2003) which discusses the 'big rip' that I mentioned in post #54:

The Big Rip: New Theory Ends Universe by Shredding Everything

86 posted on 01/21/2005 12:20:09 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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