TY - JOUR
T1 - The return of a static universe and the end of cosmology
AU - Krauss, Lawrence M.
AU - Scherrer, Robert J.
N1 - Funding Information:
L.M.K. and R.J.S. were supported in part by the Department of Energy.
PY - 2007/10
Y1 - 2007/10
N2 - We demonstrate that as we extrapolate the current ΛCDM universe forward in time, all evidence of the Hubble expansion will disappear, so that observers in our "island universe" will be fundamentally incapable of determining the true nature of the universe, including the existence of the highly dominant vacuum energy, the existence of the CMB, and the primordial origin of light elements. With these pillars of the modern Big Bang gone, this epoch will mark the end of cosmology and the return of a static universe. In this sense, the coordinate system appropriate for future observers will perhaps fittingly resemble the static coordinate system in which the de Sitter universe was first presented.
AB - We demonstrate that as we extrapolate the current ΛCDM universe forward in time, all evidence of the Hubble expansion will disappear, so that observers in our "island universe" will be fundamentally incapable of determining the true nature of the universe, including the existence of the highly dominant vacuum energy, the existence of the CMB, and the primordial origin of light elements. With these pillars of the modern Big Bang gone, this epoch will mark the end of cosmology and the return of a static universe. In this sense, the coordinate system appropriate for future observers will perhaps fittingly resemble the static coordinate system in which the de Sitter universe was first presented.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10714-007-0472-9
DO - 10.1007/s10714-007-0472-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34548324643
SN - 0001-7701
VL - 39
SP - 1545
EP - 1550
JO - General Relativity and Gravitation
JF - General Relativity and Gravitation
IS - 10
ER -