Dark energy is weakening and the universe could (eventually) collapse, study says

NPR ^ | March 20, 2025 | Chandelier Duster

[lurk]

Gonna need a Universe Collapse insurance policy, for $1M.

[The Louiswu]

Entropy is a bitch.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So now we are back to cyclical models of the universe? Big Crunch —> Big Bang —> Big Crunch ad infinitum

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

We only get to see a short duration. My theory is the Universe is constantly expanding and contracting like a rubber ball.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Well, there is probably a few forms of gravity we don’t know about.

[bennowens]

The dark matter is between their ears!

[bennowens]

lol…

[bwest]

My son won’t do his homework because the universe is expanding! “What’s the use?” he says!
(Credit to young Alvie Singer)

[Williams]

Keep in mind they have no idea what it is, just that something is happening.

[circlecity]

And why don’t the universal gravitational forces cause the universe to collapse on itself and why is the universe actually expanding?

Whoa, that’s because of dark energy dude.

What is that?

It’s like this stuff that keeps the universe expanding. It’s science dude.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I'm pretty busy. I am going to need at least a week's notice. Two weeks even better.

[Organic Panic]

Dang it. And I just got ocean front property at the North Pole.

[exinnj]

900 “scientists” discussing what may happen billions years in the future, while there is a nationwide shortage of plumbers making up to $200K per years. Let’s ask ourselves: what is more important for this country, a clogged toilet or a potential destruction of the Universe?

[plain talk]

"Dark energy [we don't know what it is] is weakening and the universe could (eventually) collapse, study says"

[silent majority rising]

ZimZum...

[Twotone]

But I knew it would be a fun thread to read. ;-)

[beethovenfan]

“You, Lord, did lay the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of Your hands. They will perish,but You remain and continue permanently; they will all grow old and wear out like a garment. Like a mantle You will roll them up,
and they will be changed.....” Hebrews 1:10-12

[redfreedom]

I’m so scared I think I’ll go out and buy another box of covid masks and maybe get a few more covid boosters. I just don’t know what else to do.

Seriously, I don’t think it will happen. But if it does we’d never know it. Just like those clowns going down to the Titanic that went too deep and imploded. It happened so fast they never knew it.

[Hot Tabasco]

do these guys snort a live of coke,

Do you ever proof read what you post?

Coke has no life

[READINABLUESTATE]

So, we’re all gonna die?

Good to know.