"Runaway Universe" May Collapse In 10 Billion Years, New Studies Predict

Stanford University via Science Daily ^ | 9/17/2002

[sourcery]

FYI

[RISU]

Here we go, "irrational exhuberance" all over again!

[Tijeras_Slim]

And my week was going so well...

[sourcery]

"So, what did you do during the Great Collapse?" :-)

[Charles Martel]

Bump for later reading

[SGCOS]

Better stock up on some Campbells soup.

[AdA$tra]

I am getting in the shower as we speak.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

dark energy

The Cosmos is a strange thing!

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[azhenfud]

I found a dime on the sidewalk and that makes all my local calls free of charge today....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

added to RealScience list!

[Centurion2000]

, our cosmos may be in danger of collapsing in a "mere" 10 to 20 billion years, according to the Stanford team

That's ok ... the little green men / democrats of the future will try to legislate the problem away.

Gravity taxes.

[Corin Stormhands]

*&$*%#$, I just bought green bananas...

[dwilli]

I'll just hold off on the weed-eating and
pruning then.

[Grut]

NEVER trust a contractor who says he can have the whole thing up and running in six days!

[xJones]

I don't kere, I got me a good life insurance policy.

[MHGinTN]

I wrote a short story several years ago that postulated this notion that the 'turn around' from expansion to contraction hqad been discovered and extraterrestrial intervention had kept the truth from coming out.

I submitted the story to a sci-fi magazine, but they turned it down because the notion of contraction was so alien to the 'science' underlying their brand of fiction. Go figure

[Lucas1]

Well by that time Planet Earth will have been destroyed several times over by meteors or asteroids. No need to panic...over this story :)

[azhenfud]

Or by man....