The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. "Remarkab...
  • LEM 1689@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    So, will they have to give the Nobel back, or did it start slowing down after 2011? This question is fundamental to our understanding of the future and the past.

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    So, can I stop lying awake at night wallowing in existential dread over the eventual heat death of the Universe or not?

    • lenny@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      How about wallowing in existential dread over the eventual big crunch with a contracting universe, black holes merging together, maybe with everything ending in a huge fireball?

    • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Not. It will be refuted again. It’s how they stay in business.

    • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      You know how it’s super depressing that the stars will eventually get so distant that you won’t be able to see any of them so beings born in the far future might never get to look up at the stars and instead think they are entirely alone in the universe? The implications are that that no longer happens.