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Fucks sake, just when we were starting to get people to move to Linux!
I think Year of the Linux Desktop was always supposed to be a harbinger of the world’s end.
"... 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.
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?
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?
Definitely the ass gravity.
It's the power of love.
Isn't expansion comparable to speed instead of acceleration? If the universe is expanding, i.e., already spreading in all kinds of directions constantly, wouldn't slower expansion mean deceleration? But I guess you meant the same with "eventual collapse later, but probably not now".
Big bang, big crunch, you know there's no free lunch
Kneel down and pray, here comes your judgment day
Big crunch, you know it's going to be quite a show
What goes around always comes around, yeah
— Bad Religion
Oh you absolute scholar.
I clicked on every link trying to find the actual paper.
It’s pending all its cycles simulating our consciousness simulations, instead of rendering further out.
This just enforces my old thought that we're living in another universes black hole, it's just getting less matter now.
Yea, wait till the math comes out when it starts contracting again. That one is going to piss everyone off.
Contraction incoming or nah?
Might just stop for all we know. Then we have to rename it the big splat.
I hope I’m around for it but doubt I will be.
Don't lose hope! Give it a week! ;)
The gnaB giB.
Gnasty Gnork
You can only stretch the firmament so much before it tears
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?
We're going to need another few billion years worth of data