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Old January 6th, 2004, 02:16 AM
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Default Re: OT: Earth\'s orbit changing?

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Originally posted by JurijD:
Yes but you're forgetting the fact that the universe won't be expanding forever... it will prolly collapse back in again or slow expaing when the distances between particles become so great that the forces of gravity and whatever this force is that is pushing galaxies apart become equal.
Maybe. You can not say for certain what is going to happen to the universe... There is nothing approaching consensus on what the fate of the universe will be. You can not say for certain that the universe will not be expanding forever. I suppose that if you want to get really picky I can add a qualifier of "while the universe is not shrinking" to my earlier statement. The problem is that evidence seems to indicate that the rate at which the galaxies are drifting apart is increasing, not decreasing.
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