Collapse of the universe coming sooner than expected according to new research

AOL ^ | March 26th 2015 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

You've heard of the Big Bang, but what about the "Colossal Crash?" Get ready, because it might be coming sooner than you think ... relatively speaking.

In a paper published in Physical Review Letters a group of physicists have theorized a mechanism for "cosmological collapse" which predicts the universe will at some point stop expanding and then collapse back onto itself, destroying us and pretty much all matter.

The idea has been floating around the scientific community in one form or another for a while now, but the latest paper is noteworthy because its numbers and models suggest that collapse is "imminent" -- at least on a cosmological scale.

"The fact that we are seeing dark energy now could be taken as an indication of impending doom, and we are trying to look at the data to put some figures on the end date," Antonio Padilla at the University of Nottingham, one of the paper's authors, told Phys.org. "Early indications suggest the collapse will kick in in a few tens of billions of years, but we have yet to properly verify this."

Our universe is currently in a period of accelerated expansion so we have nothing to worry about for the moment, but in the paper's conclusion, the team of scientists claim they've found the cause our impending doom ... but they need to do a bit more research.

[SunkenCiv]

[Darksheare]

NOT my fault.
I unplugged the vacuum cleaner.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Women, children and minorities to feel greatest impact.

[kosciusko51]

Must be Global Warming or Bush’s fault...

So much for the living forever crowd at Google.

[GMMC0987]

That does it! I’m going to max out all my credit cards and run amok!

[txrefugee]

There will always be a seed time and harvest time until God draws the curtain on His story..

[Darksheare]

Undead Thread material?
“Join us as we collapse the universe”?

[aquila48]

Should I cancel my vacation?

[tet68]

So, it’s been expanding for billions of years and
will probably slow and remain stable for billions of
years and then take billions of years to collapse.

Meh. I should worry?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gleeaikin.

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[glock rocks]

Do I have time to buy some beer first?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Somehow the solution will be returning to feudalism and killing vast quantities of people.

[dfwgator]

[GraceG]

The American Debt is so big that the Imaginary Numbers that the fed is messing with has caused a divide by zero error in the universe itself, leading to a crash....

Seems Legit!

[Mr. K]

I think time reverses too

then you get to relive your whole life KNOWING at the start everything you did

It will be hell for some people

[stephenjohnbanker]

I think it only prudent that the UT be allowed to collapse the universe. After all, we created it......somewhat.

[BenLurkin]

Somebody let Rosie O’Donnell and Michael Moore onto the same elevator.

[dfwgator]

....and I feel fine.

[Darksheare]

Plenty of tim-

[MrB]

Well, of course! It’s Bush’s fault!