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Title:
The return of a static universe and the end of cosmology
Authors:
Krauss, Lawrence M.; Scherrer, Robert J.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA), AB(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
Publication:
General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 39, Issue 10, pp.1545-1550 (GReGr Homepage)
Publication Date:
10/2007
Origin:
SPRINGER
DOI:
10.1007/s10714-007-0472-9
Bibliographic Code:
2007GReGr..39.1545K

Abstract

We demonstrate that as we extrapolate the current LambdaCDM universe forward in time, all evidence of the Hubble expansion will disappear, so that observers in our ``island universe'' will be fundamentally incapable of determining the true nature of the universe, including the existence of the highly dominant vacuum energy, the existence of the CMB, and the primordial origin of light elements. With these pillars of the modern Big Bang gone, this epoch will mark the end of cosmology and the return of a static universe. In this sense, the coordinate system appropriate for future observers will perhaps fittingly resemble the static coordinate system in which the de Sitter universe was first presented.
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