

Human: How many years from now is the universe expected to contract?

Assistant: Are you talking about the universe as a whole, or what happens to our galaxy, the Milky Way?


Human: How many years from now is the universe expected to contract?

Assistant: Well it’s not like the sun will suddenly and instantly collapse in a hundred years.  Even in a “big crunch” of a universe with cosmological constant, the universe would only be smaller than it is now when it was about 10 or 20 times younger.
How many years from now is the universe expected to contract?
Are you talking about the universe as a whole, or what happens to our galaxy, the Milky Way?
Well it’s not like the sun will suddenly and instantly collapse in a hundred years.  Even in a “big crunch” of a universe with cosmological constant, the universe would only be smaller than it is now when it was about 10 or 20 times younger.