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[Adoni Yannop]

Hi StarmanG10,

At this point, with dark energy causing the acceleration of the universal expansion, I would say the vast, cold, infinite expanding universe is the most likely. In the far distant future, the universal expansion will cause atomic nuclei to split apart and that's it for the universe.

(By the way, up until dark energy was discovered, it was an open question whether we were in a universe that expanded forever or one that recollapsed. The indications were that the universe was expanding forever, but at an ever decreasing rate. This has all changed now with dark energy.)

Dr Joe

Once, you guys come to understand that Edwin Hubble was correct for the entirety of his life quote):
"If you are believing that my redshift discovery is doppler redshift, then, you are reading too much into my redshift discovery!!"
The better you'll come to understand the infinite past age of the universe and its infinite coming future ages!!
Refined modern average estimates of the Hubble Flow Redshift Constant tend to cluster around 73 (km/s)/Mpc!!
Modern Cosmologists give the galaxies to be physically standing still while the space between the galaxies is given to expand at the Hubble Flow Redshift Constant of about 73 (km/s)/Mpc from us and from every other observer in the universe!!
Forcing us and everyone else in the universe to imagine that all of us are at center of the universe!!
The thing is that if every observer in the universe thinks that he is at the center of the universe, then, nobody is "actually" at the center of the universe!!
Confused!! You should be because the The Big Bang "Singularity" Given As The Maker Of Heaven And Earth and of Everything Visible and Invisible Is Absurd And Impossible!!
Finally, If you come to understand that the Hubble Flow Redshift Constant is not doppler redshift, then, you eliminate the given 75% of the mass-energy of the universe given as "Dark Energy" instantly!! Great!! Good Job, People!!

 

[alexzuber750]

Is there life on Mars?

 

[Jzz]

Once, you guys come to understand that Edwin Hubble was correct for the entirety of his life quote):
"If you are believing that my redshift discovery is doppler redshift, then, you are reading too much into my redshift discovery!!"

This is a bit confusing. Surely Hubble used the red shift to determine that the Universe seems to be expanding. He very specifically used the Doppler effect to determine that the universe expands. Did he then later go on to claim that the red shift wasn’t due to the Doppler effect at all but to something else. If so surely the whole mathematical reasoning on which his calculations were based would also be skewed? One thing that has been determined is that light (electromagnetic radiation) does obey the Doppler red shift. Proof of this can be founbd in the tiny shift in frequency from the Voyager transmissions.

“Each Deep Space Network site has a highly accurate frequency source that can be tuned to compensate for the Doppler frequency shift caused by relative movement between the transmitting and receiving antennas. Compensation takes into account the movement of the spacecraft, the rotation of the Earth around the sun, and the revolution of the Earth around its axis. Receivers are able to detect frequency shifts that are a fraction of a hertz.” All about circuits.com

What makes things even stranger is that this figure corressponds with a high degree of accuracy toi the Hubble Red Shift.