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"big Crunch" Might Have Already Taken Place
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Mohammad Isa Mirsiam on December 8, 2001 05:03:28 UTC |
...'The three Friedmann models have enormous appeal because they're so easy to understand. They also predict the ultimate fate of the universe: it will expand forever only if the density is less than or equal to the critical value. Otherwise the days of an expanding universe are numbered because this high density model will expand only to certain maximum size and then contract into a "big crunch" ("big bang" in reverse) at some future date at least tens of billions of years from today.....'
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