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.

  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    “… the universe has already passed its point of maximum acceleration and has entered a phase of decelerated expansion at the present epoch.”

    oh no :( i want another 500 ca-trillion years, not just a couple billion.

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      7 hours ago

      If it’s slowing down right now instead of expanding what was previously observed, that actually means that there was quite a force to get it into the other direction. Or am I misinterpreting things?

      • ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee
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        2 hours ago

        Slowed expansion doesn’t mean contraction, it means getting bigger less quickly (and then collapsing later, probably, but not now).

        But yes, what’s providing the resistance to make galaxies not drift apart so quickly? Is it dark energy, is it regular ass gravity, is it wishy thinking?