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We're talking about the expansion of the Universe here. This expansion has 14 billion years of evidence in the observable Universe to support it. Experimental
by cletus 6y ago
We're talking about the expansion of the Universe here. This expansion has 14 billion years of evidence in the observable Universe to support it.
Experimental evidence has shown this expansion is increasing not decreasing.
This isn't to say that the expansion won't slow, stop or even reverse but that claim requires a testable theory. The Universe is expanding based on all our understanding and all the experimental evidence we have to date is not an equivalent position to "well, we really don't know what will happen in a billion years".
- twhb 6y agoEvidence doesn’t show anything, it supports things. Theories are replaced all the time by new theories that are supported by all the same evidence, and even more. Since this has been happening to theories on the fate of the universe on average once per generation for the past 100 years, and each successive theory has also had experimental support and scientific consensus, I’d say evidence supports a prediction of at least one more change, wouldn’t you? Amid other information, this page lists major changes to cosmological theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_cosmological_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_cosmological_theor...