Universe May Be Running Out of Time

RenHoek writes "With heat death, the big crunch and quite a few other nasty ways in which the universe could see its demise, we can now add "running out of time" to the list. A team of scientists came up with a new theory that would solve the problem of the elusive dark energy that seems to be accelerating the expansion of the universe. They figure that the universe is not speeding up but we are, in relation to the outer regions of space, slowing down. Tests with the upcoming Large Hadron Collider will give more insight if we're going to end up frozen in time."

Comments

Re:Pretty vague description of the problem...

[Pojut]

That was actually an episode from a few seasons back...many people rip on South Park for just becoming crazy for the sake of crazy, but there is one thing that is abundantly clear...in the 11+ years that show has been on, it is quite obvious that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are no where even CLOSE to running out of original ideas. Outlandish, over the top, nothing like what the show used to be...but still original, creative, and just plain funny stuff.

You should keep watching it...it's an entirely different show than it was in it's first few seasons, but it's still a fantastic show. I dare say it's even better now than it used to be... /offtopic

Re:Failure of Context

[Sapphon]

Woah there, sailor, with your solid ideas and easy-to-understand balloon and train analogies. What we Slashdotters really want is analogy using cars – wait, damn!