The end of cosmology, or something to contemplate about our Universe!
Posted by BobG in Vancouver on 2008/03/04
What’s in our cosmological future in the long long long long run?
According to an article in the latest Scientific American here is the short story:
- A decade ago astronomers made the revolutionary discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. They are still working out is implications.
- The quickening expansion will eventually pull galaxies apart faster than light, causing them to drop out of view. This process eliminates reference points for measuring expansion and dilutes the distinctive products of the big bang to nothingness. In short, it erases all the signs that a big bang ever occurred.
- To our distant descendants, the universe will look like a small puddle of stars in an endless, changeless void.
- What knowledge has the universe already erased?
Check it out! There’s a great video with the piece.
