The universe may be doomed to collapse and disappear. Everything we see now, and at a much larger distance that we cannot see, will collapse into a point smaller than a proton.
Andrei Linde
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The standard vision at the moment is that the universe is speeding up, so we were surprised to find that a collapse could happen with such a short amount of time.
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Physicists have known that dark energy could become negative and the universe could collapse sometime in the distant future, perhaps a trillion years. But now we see that we might be not in the beginning, but in the middle of the life cycle of our universe.
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