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Only 10-20 Billion Years To Go

Posted by timothy on from the overdue-books dept.

cinorhc writes "An article at Space Flight Now reports on a study of some Stanford researchers that say the universe will collapse in on itself in a mere 10-20 billion years, resulting in "the Big Crunch". That puts us in the middle of the uni's life cycle. The generally accepted theory as of now is the universe will expand forever, leaving isolated galaxies all alone in a nearly infinite sea of darkness. If these guys are right, we should see galaxies blue shift any day now. I personally prefer a universe that will collapse in on itself and then re-Big Bang so to speak, circle of life on a grand scale."

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  1. Just another in a series by photon317 · · Score: 3, Insightful


    In a few years a different theory will emerge, ad infinitum. Astrophysics is a black art at this stage. It's important that we pursue it, but we all know that the "current theories" are just working models to help us along, they're almost always disproved and new models are born. It will be along time before we settle into a model that we can believe with some degree of certainty.

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  2. Whatever...... by jeramybsmith · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Hawking and others have allowed for the presence of God in cosmology. Why is it that some people have a problem reconciling cosmology with their God? Did God create the universe with a big bang? Perhaps.... Why don't we observe the universe together and see instead of digging in and rejecting these ideas outright.

    I just don't understand people who say that they believe in a God who created the universe but close their ears against any attempt to see how he did so.

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  3. 10 billion years, eh by werdna1699 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    there's probably a good chance that some idiot will use some real big weapon that he shouldn't use, kill a lot of people, most likely over religous reasons. then others will retaliate. point is, i think that humans will have trouble learning to stanking use the resources given to them, and get along with others, therefore, i think that we will kill each other off long before 10 billion years.

    solution?

    hmm. well, the only thing i can come up with, is put all the stupid people on an island, and let them kill each other off. but then again.... so. yeah, i don't know about that.

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