If two American professors are correct, the cosmos is middle-aged. And it has not got an old age to look forward to. Despite what recent observations suggest, Professor Andrei Linde from Stanford University and his wife Professor Renata Kallosh say the universe will stop expanding and collapse in the relatively near future. The new approach does not deny that the universe is accelerating. But it predicts that this acceleration will cease and be followed by a cosmic collapse in a "mere" 10 to 20 billion years.
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