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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...
(Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday August 13 2015, @08:47AM
Yes, your existence is only the result of one of a myriad of possible random situations, and your extinction will be the same. There is no plan for your life, no purpose to your existence, and if you cannot handle that, you should kill yourself now, or become a member of one of a multitude of organizations that will tell you that none of it is true! Then you can kill yourself, throwing yourself under the juggernaut, opening a sarin gas container in a subway, going to join a comet with really nice new shoes, or just drinking the cool-aid or pressing the button that says "Valhalla now!" Or you could wait for the Earth to be destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. I fail to see how Douglas Adams' version is the most depressing of these. (Oh, by the way, I talked to God, and he doesn't know you. Also said he never told Ted Cruz to run for president, or GW Bush to invade Iraq. Amazing, huh? )