[The bad news is: the quantum effect, a truly weird aspect of physics that says whenever we observe or measure something, we reset its clock.
Mr Krauss and colleague James Dent pointed to measurements of light from supernovae in 1998 that provided the first evidence of dark energy.
These measurements might have reset the decay clock of the "false vacuum'' back to zero, back before the switching point and to a time when the risk of catastrophic decay was greater than now, said Mr Dent and Mr Krauss.
"Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may have reduced the life expectancy of the universe,'' said Mr Krauss.]
Observing light as we receive it, doesn't mean that the matter that is there or even the time for it to be there coincide. Yes, the universe IS expanding. They really should keep that in mind.
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re: Uh oh, now we've done it. - Oh, good grief...
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- Uh oh, now we've done it.
- Quantum mechanics and interpretation
- "The energy shift from the decay would destroy everything in the universe, "wiping the slate clean", says Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio."
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- re: Uh oh, now we've done it. - Oh, good grief...
- Enter the Gorgon
- That's the big rip, isn't it? (n/t)
- Would it help if I closed my eyes and pretended NOT to look? (n/t)