Friday, April 27, 2007

Universe Has a New End, After a Fashion

I am not sure this article announces goof news about the end of the universe or not. Scientists have determined that when the universe "ends" it will not be so full of radiation that life will have already been exterminated. Instead dark energy, which is fueling the universe's expansion, is also going to ensure that matter outweighs radiation as well. This just means that the matter will be separated by such distances that we cannot even see other galaxies. So, we will have matter all over the universe that is not radioactive, but is too far away to make use of. This is assuming that dark matter is stable. So, either they are wrong and radiation from dark matter will kill us first or radiation will not kill us and we will basically run out of fuel and die. Neither of these are great options, and I am not sure this new theory is better than the radiation idea.

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