Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up'
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding
9 Comments
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 310d
So, can I stop lying awake at night wallowing in existential dread over the eventual heat death of the Universe or not?
lenny@feddit.org · 5 pts · 309d
How about wallowing in existential dread over the eventual big crunch with a contracting universe, black holes merging together, maybe with everything ending in a huge fireball?
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 6 pts · 309d
Yes, I suppose I could, but it's just not the same, you know? Sure, perhaps the thermalization of the chaotic flaming furnace of a big crunch will ensure all remnants of the prior Universal state is eradicated just as effectively as the cold uniform isotropic order of heat death, but a big crunch harbors the hope of a new cyclic beginning. Before you know it, you're veering into Penrose-ish optimism about the whole thing, and how's that going to keep anybody awake all night shivering in horror?
adhocfungus@midwest.social · 1 pts · 309d
How about wallowing in existential dread with a friend?
lath@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 310d
Not. It will be refuted again. It's how they stay in business.
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 309d
So, will they have to give the Nobel back, or did it start slowing down after 2011? This question is fundamental to our understanding of the future and the past.
XiELEd@piefed.social · 3 pts · 310d
What are the implications of this?
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 309d
You know how it’s super depressing that the stars will eventually get so distant that you won’t be able to see any of them so beings born in the far future might never get to look up at the stars and instead think they are entirely alone in the universe? The implications are that that no longer happens.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 309d
Bungee universe confirmed