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It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:19PM   
from the it's-the-end-of-the-world-and-we-know-it dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The most comprehensive assessment of the energy output in the nearby universe reveals that today's produced energy is only about half of what it was 2 billion years ago. A team of international scientists used several of the world's most powerful telescopes to study the energy of the universe and concluded that the universe is slowly dying.

"We used as many space- and ground-based telescopes as we could get our hands on to measure the energy output of over 200,000 galaxies across as broad a wavelength range as possible," Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) team leader Simon Driver, of the University of Western Australia, said in a statement. The astronomers created a video explaining the slow death of the universe to illustrate the discovery.

A chance to roll out your cosmology humor...

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Original Submission

• Confirmation? Confirmation? (Score: 5, Funny) by EQ on Wednesday August 12 2015, @07:26PM

  by EQ (1716) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @07:26PM (#221856)

  Has Netcraft confirmed that the universe is dying?

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• Re:Confirmation? (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday August 12 2015, @10:21PM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @10:21PM (#221959) Journal

  Is not the release of Windows Ten enough confirmation of the death of the universe/end of the world as we know it?

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