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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCollapse of the universe is closer than ever before
Sooner or later a radical shift in the forces of the universe will cause every little particle in it to become extremely heavy. Everything - every grain of sand on Earth, every planet in the solar system and every galaxy will become millions of billions times heavier than it is now, and this will have disastrous consequences: The new weight will squeeze all material into a small, super hot and super heavy ball, and the universe as we know it will cease to exist.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/uosd-cot121213.php
It's always something.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Perfect.
RC
(25,592 posts)Speedy stuff getting heaver will only increase its outward momentum.
Whatever, I plan on taking leave long before anything disastrous happens to the universe anyway.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)Not just living things - stars, and even black holes.
derby378
(30,252 posts)Sorry, folks - enjoy your recycling!
Bandit
(21,475 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)I hope it waits until after the Superbowl.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)Better start getting ready now
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)It takes us 88 ms to experience things. The squishing region would expand at the speed of light. You would just be having a normal day and then, suddenly, nothing.
Or actually, come to think of it, you would probably just get heavier and heavier until you squished. Not so painless (assuming you have a life span of trillions of years)
packman
(16,296 posts)not like my grandmaw did screaming at grandpaw that he was going up the wrong ramp onto the superhighway or my Uncle Virgil who wondered if you could milk a bull or Auntie Em who vacuumed out the gasoline in her car because she felt it was too old.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]
DavidDvorkin
(19,497 posts)So would we be aware of the change at all? Or very much aware?
ladjf
(17,320 posts)brooklynite
(94,792 posts)...won't it take a more or less equivalent amount of time to turn around?
JVS
(61,935 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)although i think all will collapse and cause another big bang. it's probably been doing this for an eternity
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)Isotope decay studies of the Silver, Palladium, Rhodium Isotopes have concluded this. It appears that it is impossible to calculate beyond that,but if one extrapolates.......it could be an infinite number.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)for a while that the universe could be just one big Sim game anyway, so I guess it would make sense if the kid playing with us all flips the "off" switch on the game and that's it.
Oops...so sorry, tiny unimportant dot beings on your tiny unimportant dot planet...
djean111
(14,255 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Great food, the best booze, a great floor show, lots of famous people and the possibility of seeing the profit Zarquon (or maybe Jesus) seconds before the end.
It would be all worth it.
packman
(16,296 posts)Good job, gonna reread it.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)Although the new calculations predict that a collapse is now more likely than ever before, it is actually also possible, that it will not happen at all. It is a prerequisite for the phase change that the universe consists of the elementary particles that we know today, including the Higgs particle. If the universe contains undiscovered particles, the whole basis for the prediction of phase change disappears.
Cyrano
(15,071 posts)A collapsing universe is just a passing thought in our dream world.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and side-slip to an alternate universe. Hopefully, one devoid of Rush Limbaugh and his ilk.
randome
(34,845 posts)...when it reaches the obstructionist GOP House.
No expanded coverage. No expanding Universe.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)edbermac
(15,947 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)our it isn't true at all.
I don't know whether the universe will collapse, but if it will it is closer than when I started typing this.
Also, the Cubs winning the world series.
1000words
(7,051 posts)The sun is the same
in a relative way
but you're older
Shorter of breath
One day closer to death
--Waters
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Tough old bastard takes Death on
http://vimeo.com/81341794