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Scientists Calculate Earlier End To Universe
Study Finds ^ | May 12, 2025 | Heino Falcke, Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom (Radboud University)

Posted on 05/12/2025 11:28:34 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

And it’s Trumps fault.


41 posted on 05/12/2025 12:05:09 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: StAnDeliver

42 posted on 05/12/2025 12:05:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

This extremely long timespan assumes that the universe will continue to expand at a constant rate, eventually undergoing a “Heat Death” in which entropy will win over everything else. Something around 10^100 years for all matter in the universe to become radiation. But there is also a “Big Rip” theory that says the expansion rate will accelerate exponentially, shortening the universe’s lifespan to only around 20 billion more years. The end will also come very quickly. By the time galaxies start to be torn apart, a few years later the solar system, the Earth in a week, and in another hour atoms will fly apart due to cosmic expansion.


43 posted on 05/12/2025 12:06:32 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Oh no!….


44 posted on 05/12/2025 12:06:49 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Red Badger

Cool. I have the universe in my death pool.


45 posted on 05/12/2025 12:07:11 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Red Badger

There was no beginning, and there will be no end.


46 posted on 05/12/2025 12:08:56 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: stars & stripes forever

(IT’S SOONER THAN YOU THINK..)

And later than most realize.

For planet Earth 🌎🌍.

But there will still be the
coming 7 Years of ‘Peace and Security’

And then His 1,000 Years Reign

Shortly after that, Eternity

Maranatha!!


47 posted on 05/12/2025 12:11:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

One of only two things will happen:

Expansion will continue until absolute zero becomes the temperature of the entire universe at which time everything falls apart. Entropy wins.

or

Expansion slows down and gravity takes hold and then everything starts to fall back down into the original gravity well and recreates the singularity at which time the Big Bang starts it all over again. Gravity wins.............


48 posted on 05/12/2025 12:12:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

The Universe has an end
Its Creator, God, has His own timing
It’s sooner than they think


49 posted on 05/12/2025 12:14:37 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“…all who were appointed for eternal life believed.” Acts 13:48)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

...And I saw a New Heaven and A New Earth............


50 posted on 05/12/2025 12:19:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: joshua c

make it dawn so we wont have to work thursday.
____________________________________________________

Let’s not, I’m sort of retired and have given up getting up at 5am every day.

TM


51 posted on 05/12/2025 12:19:36 PM PDT by A thermonuclear marshmallow (If democrats had another brain, it would be lonesome.)
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To: Red Badger

Once Judge Boasberg was informed of these latest developments, he issued his umpteenth Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on any ending of this, or any other universe.


52 posted on 05/12/2025 12:30:45 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Red Badger

You just described heat death vs. big crunch. Currently it appears that heat death will win, because observations since 1998 show that the universe’s expansion rate is accelerating, not slowing down. That was a total surprise in 1998, by the way—no one expected it. But the scenario I just talked about, big rip, occurs if the rate of acceleration is itself accelerating. That would mean dark energy in the universe is not constant but increasing as the universe expands, assuming it is a property of space itself.


53 posted on 05/12/2025 12:31:36 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Red Badger
Scientists Calculate Earlier End To Universe

So I am not the only one that thinks this headline is hilarious.

54 posted on 05/12/2025 12:37:56 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“...the universe’s expansion rate is accelerating, not slowing down. ...”

That makes total sense.

As the universe expands, the distance between masses increases, so therefore the effects of gravitational interactions between those masses becomes weaker and weaker on a logarithmic scale. So the expansion would accelerate as the force of gravity holding everything back gets less and less.


55 posted on 05/12/2025 12:38:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

maybe FedEx will deliver our parcel by then?


56 posted on 05/12/2025 12:38:18 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Red Badger

That’s not entirely correct. The expansion rate would still continue to slow down regardless of how far apart objects in the universe became, since gravity doesn’t have a “cut-off point”. The acceleration being referred to is something other than the lack of gravity—it is a repulsive force caused by what they’ve termed “dark energy”. Nothing else can explain why the expansion rate seems to be accelerating.


57 posted on 05/12/2025 12:44:26 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SuperLuminal
The Netherlands is NOT the drug capitol of the planet. See below:

The following major illicit drug producing and/or drug-transit countries were identified and notified to Congress by the President on September 14, 2014, consistent with section 706(1) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107-228):

Afghanistan, The Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Burma, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.

In other words, all of South America, where most of the illegal aliens occupying the U.S. come from.

58 posted on 05/12/2025 12:53:26 PM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union just to get a job loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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59 posted on 05/12/2025 1:04:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Red Badger

Boeing just announced they hope to have the new Air Force One done by then but can’t guarantee it.


60 posted on 05/12/2025 1:14:12 PM PDT by circlecity
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