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?

Blobrana :

ur website gave some useful info. and links. thnx. keep it up.

I swear I heard the same thing on Nova at least a year ago. That the universe would never end.

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...

sounds so simple wen its broken down, cheers:m: