Witness the inevitable Death of the Cosmos
(Death of our Cosmos) People used to think that the universe was static and unchanging. In other words, they thought it had always existed and always will. But this hypothesis was disproven when we found out that the universe had a beginning. The entire universe was created during the Big Bang from a single point, smaller than the nucleus of an atom. Today, billions of years after its birth, the universe does indeed seem to be static - planets serenely orbit their parental stars, and those in turn constantly encircle the centers of their galaxies. It may seem that it is going to stay this way forever. But reality is much sadder. With each passing second, we are approaching the inevitable end of our cosmos. And when it finally arrives, all humans will have been long dead and everything we have ever created long destroyed. But it we really wish to comprehend the downfall of the universe, we first need to focus on dark energy. When scientists studied the expansion on the cosmos...