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Dark Energy Debate Reignites As Study Finds Universe's Expansion Is Actually Slowing (hothardware.com)

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Big Crunch, here we come! A new study is implying that the universe may actually be slowing down and that the culmination of the decrease in dark energy could spell a reverse big bang.

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[–] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hear me out. What if the expansion is a wave. We expand and then we contact and then we expand again. Who knows whether our current circumstances are linear?

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

We're going to need another few billion years worth of data