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Attempting to comprehend fully the vast edges of the cosmos is futile. Doubtless these theories will be revised and replaced many times over. Perhaps it is best to ignore why the world turns and simply celebrate that it does. Don't worry about the end of the universe; no one gets out alive. JOHN CURRAN Wellesley, Mass...
Could it be that the cosmos started when God himself exploded? MARC BULTE Ninove, Belgium
...that's not the end, according to University of Michigan astrophysicist Fred Adams. An expert on the fate of the cosmos and co-author with Greg Laughlin of The Five Ages of the Universe (Touchstone Books; 2000), Adams predicts that all this dead matter will eventually collapse into black holes. By the time the universe is 1 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years old, the black holes themselves will disintegrate into stray particles, which will bind loosely to form individual "atoms" larger than the size of today's universe. Eventually, even these will decay, leaving a featureless, infinitely large...
ALBERT EINSTEIN when: 1916 what he did: Introduced the "cosmological constant," a form of antigravity, to make general relativity agree with a cosmos that seemed not to be expanding...
...ARNO PENZIAS AND ROBERT WILSON when: 1965 what they did: Accidentally detected the leftover glow from the Big Bang ? which astronomers are now deciphering to learn the composition and ultimate fate of the cosmos...