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    Five Ages of the Universe, the astrophysicists Fred Adams and Gregory Laughlin divided the past and future history of an expanding universe into five eras...
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    on expanding space". arXiv:0809.4573 [astro-ph]. Eddington, Arthur. The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900–1931. Press Syndicate of the...
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  • Ages of the Universe is a popular science book written by astrophysicists Fred Adams and Gregory P. Laughlin about the future of an expanding universe first...
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    Future of an expanding universe#Galaxies outside the Local Supercluster are no longer detectable. Loeb, Abraham (2002). "The Long-Term Future of Extragalactic...
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    solved in such a way as to allow the universe to be expanding at the present and contracting in the far future, he added to those equations what he called...
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    cosmological constant, the universe will continue expanding forever, and a heat death is expected to occur, with the universe cooling to approach equilibrium...
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    Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. It was first proposed as...
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    evidence that the universe is not static but expanding. The first estimate of the age of the universe came from the calculation of when all of the objects must...
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    steady state theory is an alternative to the Big Bang theory. In the steady-state model, the density of matter in the expanding universe remains unchanged...
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    Gillespie, Stuart (21 October 2016). "The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate – or is it?". University of Oxford – News & Events – Science Blog...
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    The chronology of the universe describes the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology. Research published in 2015 estimates the...
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    considered the possibility of a cyclic model for the universe as an (everlasting) alternative to the model of an expanding universe. In 1922, Alexander Friedmann...
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    “big bang” as an explosion inside a black hole, producing the expanding volume of space and matter that includes the observable universe. This black hole...
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    of an open universe in the sense that space will continue expanding forever. A flat universe can have zero total energy. A positively curved universe...
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    the constants of proportionality depend on conventions. It is common to describe a patch of this solution as an expanding universe of the FLRW form where...
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    spatially and temporally infinite, and space is neither expanding nor contracting. Such a universe does not have so-called spatial curvature; that is to...
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    theory of the Big Bang, emerged together 13.787±0.020 billion years ago, and the universe has been expanding ever since. Today the universe has expanded into...
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  • For timelines of the future of the universe, see: Timeline of the Big Bang Future of an expanding universe Timeline of the far future This article includes...
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    According to the Friedmann equations that describe the dynamics of an expanding universe, a fluid with sufficiently negative pressure exerts gravitational...
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    to vanish completely (see Future of an expanding universe). Planet Earth, the Milky Way, and the Local Group of galaxies of which the Milky Way is a part...
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    Big Crunch (category Ultimate fate of the universe)
    of modern cosmology." After this discovery, Einstein's and Newton's models of a contracting, yet static universe were dropped for the model expanding...
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    average matter density of the Universe, the voids look almost empty to an observer. Voids typically have a diameter of 10 to 100 megaparsecs (30 to 300...
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    different universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "flat universes", "other universes", "alternate universes", "multiple universes", "plane...
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    November 2018, an auction of 22 personal possessions of Stephen Hawking, including his doctoral thesis ("Properties of Expanding Universes", PhD thesis...
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    universe. In 1927, the Belgian physicist Georges Lemaitre proposed an expanding model for the universe to explain the observed redshifts of spiral...
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    was the period in the evolution of the early universe when, according to inflation theory, the universe underwent an extremely rapid exponential expansion...
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    watershed point between an expanding and a contracting Universe. To date, the critical density is estimated to be approximately five atoms (of monatomic hydrogen)...
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    observations of supernovae determined that not only is the universe expanding, it is expanding at an increasing rate. A better understanding of the acceleration...
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    an expanding universe, fluids with larger equations of state disappear more quickly than those with smaller equations of state. This is the origin of...
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    Big Rip (category Ultimate fate of the universe)
    density increases as the universe expands. A universe dominated by phantom energy is an accelerating universe, expanding at an ever-increasing rate. However...
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