The latest data from NASAs MAP probe has shown that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, and that it is going to expand forever... mirrored here http://mysite.freeserve.com/blobrana/news/darknews.htm and here... http://www.nasa.gov/HP_FLB_Feature_MAP_030211.html I suspected it, all along...
Crap, I liked the Big Crunch. Well, I can always just jump into a black hole hoping to escape this universe. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to crawl completely into one of your orifices and be in an inverse world?
Hmmm, I wonder what implications inflation will have for a big crunch? Our region of the universe is flat, but the universe as a whole is much bigger and may be closed and finite. If so, there might still be enough mass to make omega=>1.
Yes it`s possible that we do live in a region of space that is low density... the data that the MAP probe gathered originated 300,000 after the BB only covers the visual universe, but i feel that there is no reason to suggest that any other part of space out-with the visible universe (apart from any boundary condition) is any different or has slightly different `constants`... i`m convinced that the universe is flat, there will not be a big crunch.
i agree, i think the univere will continue to expand, its amaizing tho coz if the universe expanded any slower the universe would have collapsed on its self, neway i have a queriy, i was reading stephen hawkins book, and he said that the universe expanded 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (i fink its the right n number) times its own size in a fraction of a second, would this not have been faster than the speed of light?
There were probably TWO distinct episodes of super-inlation... Space-time perhaps increased 10^50! ( i think) in a fraction of a second...it is ok , because there is no speed limit on the actual `fabric` of space-time. The velocity of light just limits particles and forces contained within space-time... Just remember that the `space` that the BB ids inflating into doesn`t contain any time (or space!)...therefore distances and speeds become meaningless...
