World To End With A "Big Crunch", Say Scientists
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18 April 2024
A new study has questioned the existing Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model that explains the origin of our cosmos and its evolution
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It has found that dark energy, which causes the universe to expand faster, seems to be weakening
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This new theory could cause the first major paradigm shift in cosmology since the discovery of the expansion of the universe
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It suggested that our cosmos won't end in a "Big Rip", or a "Big Chill", but rather a "Big Crunch"
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The good news is that there is plenty of time until the cosmic event would happen
The new clues are built using the data collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
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The instrument's 5,000 robotic eyes collect light from millions of galaxies across over a third of the entire sky as we see it from Earth
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This light is then broken down into a spectrum of colours, allowing scientists to measure the expansion of the universe over billions of years
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The calculation happens by measuring a change in light wavelength called "redshift"
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The news of a big crunch comes as South Korea begin developing an "artificial sun" which will burn at 100 million degrees Celsius
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