Universe Is "Doomed to Collaspe"

BBC OnLine | Tuesday, 22 October, 2002 | Dr. David Whitehouse

[yankeedame]

The Universe is going to collaspe,huh? Gee, now I don't feel so bad about not putting any money into my IRA this year.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Another excuse I can use when I don't finish household projects..."Well, honey, the universe is just going to end anyway, so who cares if I finish painting the deck?"

[PetroniDE]

Oh great. Democraps gonna blame Bush for this too?

[American Soldier]

What did he know and when did he know it?

[tsomer]

I'm so bummed.

[ReadMyMind]

Well, what's he doing to stop it? /humor

[Larry Lucido]

Universe Is "Doomed to Collapse"

Because of too many SUV's, I presume?

[baseballfanjm]

I wonder if the Red Sox will win it all before the universe collapses. Maybe it'll collapse when they do win.

[Hanging Chad]

article un-sourced?

[MoGalahad]

Keep in mind that this is primarily conjecture based on a mathmatical model for the dark energy, yankeedame.

[lsee]

2 Peter 3:10
"But 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."

[Dstorm]

We're as Doomed as Doomed can be. I must say

[Reaganwuzthebest]

This article reinforces my view that most of what comes off as "expert" analysis regarding the universe is just conjecture. There's too much going on out there we'll never understand.

[Mr. Peabody]

HAHAHA

And you people were worried about the sniper!

[PISANO]

Forget the Universe collapsing. Our solar system will be extinct long long before that happens. Our sun only has about 4-5 billion years left, after which the earth will cease to exist.

[TonyInOhio]

Our sun only has about 4-5 billion years left, after which the earth will cease to exist.

CRAP. Guess I don't need to hop in the shower after all.

Tony

[Poohbah]

OK, that's it. I'm not going to bother cleaning out the garage Saturday.

[Revolting cat!]

So should I renew my magazine subscriptions or not?

[MichaelP]

The field of cosmology is going in many directions. Read Fred Adams book "The five ages of the universe" for a good understanding of whats being accepted by the majority of Cosmologists presently.

Here is a brief review of his book:

There's a reason "astronomically large" means "larger than the scale of ordinary life": normal scales of time and space for astronomers involve millions of years and anywhere from thousands to quadrillions of kilometers. Even for astronomers, University of Michigan professor Fred Adams and his former student Greg Laughlin think big--really, really big--and their planning is really, really long-term.

In The Five Ages of the Universe, Adams and Laughlin present their vision of the history of the universe, from the big bang on. They've had to come up with a new unit of measure to make this timescape intellectually tractable: the "cosmological decade." When the universe is 10 to the n years old, it is in the nth cosmological decade; we are now in the 10th, for instance. Each decade is thus 10 times as long as the one before.

All the stars will have stopped shining in the 14th cosmological decade, about 100 trillion years from now--which is a mind-bendingly long period of time by most standards.

But Adams and Laughlin are just getting their speculations warmed up. They go on to fold, spindle, and mutilate your time sense as they discuss the Degenerate Era (out to decade 39), the Black Hole Era (to decade 100), and the possible creation of new universes in the Dark Era (after decade 101 or so).

It's the most fascinating, mind-expanding trip inside eternity you can read. --Mary Ellen Curtin

Mike

[PetroniDE]

I saw something about it on WND. The article is authentic, even if the information in it is hogwash.