Big Bang or Colossal Crash? It may be happening sooner than we think. The Physical Review letters published a paper in which a group of physicists developed a mechanism for “cosmological collapse.” They are saying the universe will stop expanding and collapse back into itself. Needless to say, we would all be annihilated.
We’ve heard people spouting “last days” forever but the numbers and models in the paper are suggesting that a collapse will happen sooner than later.
Antonio Padilla, from the University of Nottingham, one of the authors of the paper, says,“The fact that we are seeing dark energy now could be taken as an indication of impending doom, and we are trying to look at the data to put some figures on the end date. Early indications suggest the collapse will kick in in a few tens of billions of years but we have yet to properly verify this.” “Personally, this puts tax season in perspective for me” says Kevin Thompson, CPA. “I won’t really kill myself to get all of this stuff done now since I know the end is near. I mean it can wait, right?”
A Few tens of billions of years is not a cause for immediate alarm but the team of scientists feel they have found the cause of Earth’s impending doom. Thompson goes on to say “since most of us don’t make it out alive anyway, I think we can stop worrying about this for this generation and a few to come. But, any of you who wish to continue to worry, please feel free.”