Will the current rate of expansion of the uni...

Will the current rate of expansion of the universe result in a Big Freeze, Big Crunch or Big Rip?

Author Name : Aman Burman, Sandip Roy

ABSTRACT

The eventual fate of the universe has been a question that has been around and tried to be answered for many millennia. Currently there are 5 main theories for the ultimate fate of the universe: Big Freeze, Big Rip, Big Crunch, Big Bounce and Big slurp. A lot of research has been conducted by satellites such as NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite on the different variables that are important in deducing how the universe is going to end which I am going to go through in this research paper. By assessing these variables and what it means towards the momentum of expansion and the pull (or push) of gravity, we will see the most probable method of the demise of the universe. However, as with most concepts and theories in Astronomy and Astrophysics, our ideas are changing everyday so what we believe today may be different to what we think will happen tomorrow.