The end of the universe is cancelled

The Sunday Telegraph ^ | February 9, 2003 | Robert Matthews

[VadeRetro]

The end of the universe is cancelled

Drat! I had tickets for good seats!

[visualops]

rofl!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Been there. It is way overrated IMO.

[ScholarWarrior]

I would prefer to refer to the "dark energy" as freedom.

Freedom counteracts gravity. Freedom extends time and space.

IMHO

But Hawking is still a cool guy.

[exmoor]

The end of the universe is cancelled......great now I can still take my ZOLOFT.......

[openotherend]

I'll wait for the paperback.

[DAnconia55]

FYI...

Hollywood has taken up Adams' screenplay for Hitchhiker's. The entire series (I think) is scheduled for big screen. Hitchhikers is in pre-production now.

[KantianBurke]

Would you have given a nice tip to Marvin for parking your car?

[new cruelty]

thanks for the info. i have the old bbc shows on tape. the movie should be a hoot.

[PianoMan]

Or at least, the meal will be cheaper because you won't get such a good show.

[uglybiker]

Would it have mattered?

Here I am, brain the size of a planet and I'm reduced to parking cars. God! I'm so depressed....

[Billy_bob_bob]

Let's hope they dump Zaphod Beebelbrox's second head. That was such a lame device, even in the book it was lame, in the BBC series it was unbearable. I don't care how many special effects they use, or if the second head is some big star, the basic idea sucked in the book and it will suck in the movie. Dump Zaphod's second head!

[uglybiker]

I remember that being announced shortly before Douglas Adams's death. There was a discussion here on FR as to who would be able to pull a project like that off.

My vote was for Terry Gilliam.

[new cruelty]

seems right up his alley.

[uglybiker]

Hmmm.... A cheaper meal means more money to go toward Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters!

[WKB]

2 Peter 3:10 (NIV) 10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.£

[longshadow]

Alright, let's get things rolling here. You've read Guth's book, PH; what's the deal -- is dark energy, which enables an ever expanding Universe, compatible with the Inflationary model, which requires the matter density of the Universe to be the critical value; i.e., the value that would lead to a flat Geometry and a "parabolic" rate of expansion (if there were no dark energy)?

[KantianBurke]

well if he gets enough tips he might one day be able to get all the diodes on his left side fixed

[longshadow]

My vote was for Terry Gilliam.

oh, my..... that would be too good.

[jimkress]

Entropy wins, again!