PieFedDark Energy Debate Reignites As Study Finds Universe's Expansion Is Actually Slowing
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Big Crunch, here we come! A new study is implying that the universe may actually be slowing down and that the culmination of the decrease in dark energy could spell a reverse big bang.
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AnUnusualRelicFucks sake, just when we were starting to get people to move to Linux!
“… the universe has already passed its point of maximum acceleration and has entered a phase of decelerated expansion at the present epoch.”
oh no :( i want another 500 ca-trillion years, not just a couple billion.
If it’s slowing down right now instead of expanding what was previously observed, that actually means that there was quite a force to get it into the other direction. Or am I misinterpreting things?
ol_capt_joeSlowed expansion doesn’t mean contraction, it means getting bigger less quickly (and then collapsing later, probably, but not now).
But yes, what’s providing the resistance to make galaxies not drift apart so quickly? Is it dark energy, is it regular ass gravity, is it wishy thinking?
SoleInvictusIsn’t expansion comparable to speed instead of acceleration? If the universe is expanding, i.e., already spreading in all kinds of directions constantly, wouldn’t slower expansion mean deceleration? But I guess you meant the same with “eventual collapse later, but probably not now”.
This just enforces my old thought that we’re living in another universes black hole, it’s just getting less matter now.
Contraction incoming or nah?
frog_brawlerI hope I’m around for it but doubt I will be.
potoooooooo ✅️Yea, wait till the math comes out when it starts contracting again. That one is going to piss everyone off.
Big bang, big crunch, you know there’s no free lunch
Kneel down and pray, here comes your judgment day
Big crunch, you know it’s going to be quite a show
What goes around always comes around, yeah
— Bad Religion
Hear me out. What if the expansion is a wave. We expand and then we contact and then we expand again. Who knows whether our current circumstances are linear?
thenextguyThe gnaB giB.
fleebleneebleIt’s pending all its cycles simulating our consciousness simulations, instead of rendering further out.
Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤDoes this overturn the previous finding that expansion is accelerating? Assuming it’s peer reviewed and confirmed, of course.
Þ/th makes the unvoiced th sound, like in Thursday/thunder.
Ð/ð makes the voiced th sound like in this/that.
Anyway, that’s why it’s a debate - we don’t know yet.
Thorn had completely replaced eth by the Middle English period. It’s arbitrary usage to begin with.
That’s only how it works in IPA, these letters are/were used in several languages and none consistently used thorn for one sound and eth for a different sound.
Wait, whats different between the th in thursday and in this? They make the same sound
They absolutely do not
Well that must be one hell of a regional difference, because they most certainly do.
It’s difficult to explain this, but you’re wrong, there is no regional dialect that would pronounce the word this as this, because it is awkward.
Both are interdental fricatives, but this is always done with a voiced dental fricative, a voiceless would be the way people pronounce thistle. Now try to say this place but say this without the le on thistle.
I’m on mobile and can’t type out the IPA symbols, but I did take linguistics classes so I know the difference between the two phones, whereas you seem to equate the phones with their orthography.
I really dont know what to say lol. This sounds exactly the same to thistle to me. I went and researched the voiced and voiceless th, but none of the explanations really tracked with how I say th and how i hear it said around me. To me, “voiced th” is simply me not whispering.
Check the IPA, they do not. Incidentally, the phonetic alphabet is pretty much the only writing system that ever used thorn and eth consistently for different sounds.
Imagine pronouncing “this” like the first syllable of “thistle”. There’s more emphasis on the “th” sound than there is when you say “this”
Does pis overturn pe previous finding pat expansion is accelerating? Assuming it’s peer reviewed and confirmed, of course.
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https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988?login=false
Actual paper instead of the ad infested fuck fest