From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Date: Sat Dec 28 1996 - 11:28:01 MST
John K Clark wrote:
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> On Fri, 27 Dec 1996 Max More <maxmore@primenet.com> Wrote:
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> >Can anyone tell me, according to current thinking, how long
> >until the universe begins to recollapse (according to those
> >who think it will)?
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> I think most would say the universe is probably open and so will never
> collapse. Even Tipler thinks the universe is ALMOST open and so will take a
> very long time before it starts to collapse, 10^18 years. So according to
> Tipler The Omega Point will happen in 2 * 10^18 years, give or take a few
> hundred trillion. That's a very large number to be sure, but it's no closer
> to being infinite than the number 1 is.
>
John, how does this relate to the rate of proton decay? Will all the
matter in the universe evaporate before it starts to collapse again?
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