{"id":222950,"date":"2025-10-05T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/study-says-the-universe-will-end-in-a-big-crunch-and-scientists-predict-when-it-will-happen"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:03:43","slug":"study-says-the-universe-will-end-in-a-big-crunch-and-scientists-predict-when-it-will-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/study-says-the-universe-will-end-in-a-big-crunch-and-scientists-predict-when-it-will-happen","title":{"rendered":"Study says the universe will \u2018end in a big crunch\u2019 and scientists predict when it will happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-says-the-universe-will-end-in-a-big-crunch-and-scientists-predict-when-it-will-happen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve grown up with the idea that the universe will expand forever, meaning that something called the \u201ccosmological constant\u201d is positive. Space keeps stretching, galaxies drift farther apart, and that seems final.<\/p>\n<p>A new analysis suggests that story might be wrong. It argues that expansion could slow, stop, and \u2013 far in the future \u2013 reverse. This idea posits that the cosmological constant is actually negative, not positive, as we have assumed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve grown up with the idea that the universe will expand forever, meaning that something called the \u201ccosmological constant\u201d is positive. Space keeps stretching, galaxies drift farther apart, and that seems final. A new analysis suggests that story might be wrong. It argues that expansion could slow, stop, and \u2013 far in the future \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}