• Question: At which time is it truthfully predicted that the universe will end?

    Asked by alicewesley to Anna, George, Jodi, Rob, Stefan on 17 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Isabelle_Sasha.
    • Photo: Jodi Schneider

      Jodi Schneider answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      We can’t really answer that because we don’t know the SHAPE of the universe:
      /bigdatan14-zone/2014/11/12/do-we-what-the-universe-is-exspanding-into/

      Hopefully the universe won’t end — but if it does it will be a LONG time from now.

    • Photo: Anna Scaife

      Anna Scaife answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      This is a difficult question – lots of theories of cosmology say that eventually the Universe will stop expanding and collapse back in on itself, but that collapse won’t be just the same expansion in reverse so it’s uncertain how long it would take.

    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Current cosmology suggests the universe is flat, and therefore won’t collapse back on itself. It will just expand… until all the stars appear to disappear. How sad.

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