Experts Say Humanity Will Face ‘Cosmic Hell’ And Reveal When The Universe Might Collapse
The reality is that nobody can say with certainty when humanity’s time will be up. But scientists are doing what they do best — looking at the data and making educated predictions based on what we currently understand.
And honestly, if there’s anyone we should be listening to on this subject, it’s probably the people who study the universe for a living.
Researchers from Cornell University recently published a study exploring just how and when this might happen. They’ve tried to pin down a more exact timeline for when this theoretical collapse could begin.
Scientists have already figured out that our universe is currently expanding due to a mysterious force known as Dark Energy. But this force might not be as permanent as once believed — it could be gradually weakening over time.
“The basketball will de–accelerate until reaching the maximum height and start to fall.”
According to the study’s findings, cosmologists now believe the potential collapse — this massive universe-ending event — is at least 19.5 billion years away. However, physicist Henry Tye shared with the New York Post that this so-called ‘Big Crunch’ could actually begin around 11 billion years from now and then take another 8.5 billion years to fully unfold.
That raises a big question — could humans actually make it through something this massive?
Given how far into the future this event is expected to happen, it’s not completely out of the question. We might have enough time to come up with a survival plan.
That said, it’s far from straightforward. As Luu pointed out in his interview with Mail Online: “Intelligent civilizations at the scales of solar systems or even galactic scales would not notice any obvious phenomenon because these changes happen at much larger cosmological scales.”
“Civilizations like us typically exist on time scales of hundreds to thousands of years while the changes happen on billion–year time scales, so we wouldn’t notice any obvious day–to–day phenomenon until the very last moment.”
