The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.
It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.
For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.
Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.
Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy.
Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.
We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.
You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.
