Cosmology: escaping the end of the universe (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, April 05, 2015, 17:59 (3521 days ago) @ David Turell

It is April's fools day, I think:-http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.08130v1.pdf-"The discovery that most of the energy density in the universe is stored in the form of dark energy has profound consequences for our future. In particular our current limited under-standing of quantum theory of gravity indicates that some time in the future our universe will undergo a phase transition that will destroy us and everything else around us instantaneously. However the laws of gravity also suggest a way out { some of our descendants could survive this catastrophe by riding gravity away from the danger. In this essay I describe the tale of this escape from doomsday."