The bad news: The universe will end in a runaway expansion so violent that galaxies and planets will be torn apart and individual atoms of human flesh will be ripped asunder in the tiniest fraction of a second.The good news: You can go ahead and book your summer holiday. It wont happen for another 22 billion years. Robert Caldwell, a physicist at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, says the doomsday scenario inverts the widespread belief that the cosmos will end with a whimper.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030303/universe.html
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