The world will end with a “big crunch”, say scientists monitoring dark matter acriss the universe.
The good news is that boffins working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic group say there is plenty of time until the cosmic event would happen.
The universe’s rapid expansion could potentially weaken the energy that composes atoms, new research suggests.
Luz Angela Garcia Penaloza, an ex-DESI team member and cosmologist at the Universidad ECCI in Columbia, verifies that the dark energy’s impact is indeed “decreasing” over time, reports the Daily Star.
They have since described this decrease as the “big crunch”, an observation of the cosmos implying the world will slowly grind to a halt and collapse into itself.
In an interview with Space, leading expert Luz states, “If what the first year of DESI results suggests is true, then the accelerated expansion of the universe will cease and eventually reverse, and the universe could begin drawing together under the influence of gravity.
“This could eventually lead to the universe ending in a ‘Big Crunch’ scenario.”
A collaborating expert warned that while the big crunch might start innocuously, it could progress into an existence-obliterating event.
Martin Bojowald of Pennsylvania State University revealed, “The collapse initially would just be very harmless; the density of the universe would increase, but very slowly. But at some time the collapse would lead to densities of the same size as the Big Bang.”
He believes that we are on verge of comprehending how the “big crunch” might appear.
Luz shed light on an exciting anticipation: “We’re going to have a very complementary vision of the universe from two completely different missions.”
He further added: “They are going give us a completely and brand new vision of how the universe is behaving and how dark energy is shaping the larger scale universal structure.”
The news of a big crunch comes as South Korea begin developing an “artificial sun” which will burn at 100million degrees. Boffins working on the fusion energy device say they have the artificial item running for 48 seconds at a time.
