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November 24, 2007
Schrödinger's universe
Mankind 'shortening the universe's life'By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 21/11/2007Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too.
The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating the consequences for the cosmos of quantum theory, the most successful theory we have. Over the past few years, cosmologists have taken this powerful theory of what happens at the level of subatomic particles and tried to extend it to understand the universe, since it began in the subatomic realm during the Big Bang.
[....]The damaging allegations are made by Profs Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and James Dent of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, who suggest that by making this observation in 1998 we may have caused the cosmos to revert to an earlier state when it was more likely to end. "Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may have reduced the life-expectancy of the universe," Prof Krauss tells New Scientist.
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Roger Highfield, Science Editor wrote about Schrödinger's Universe. Dr. Milo Wolff recently wrote a book about it too and here's my post on that:
http://www.rbduncan.com/schrod.htm
let me know what you think
fitz
Posted by: Dan Fitzpatrick at August 5, 2008 08:56 AM