Scientists have known for almost 20 years that the universe — everything that exists — is dying . The overall energy is slowly fade to a distant but inevitable conclusion . Now new research supports this theory and take a close look at the overall energy decline .
Yesterday an external team of researchers presentedfindingsfrom theGalaxy And Mass Assembly ( GAMA)project at the International Astronomical Union league , in Hawaii , which show that the current energy output across more than 200,000 galax is only about half as solid as it was 2 billion years ago .
According to GAMA master investigator Simon Driver , of theInternational Centre for Radio Astronomy Research , the project " used as many space- and ground - found telescopes as we could get our hands on . " They measured each of the 200,000 galaxy at 21 wavelengths from the ultraviolet to the far infrared , making this attempt the largest multi - wavelength survey ever put together .
The GAMA study sets out to map and exemplar all of the get-up-and-go engender within a large volume of space today and at different times in the past times . What they ’re actually evaluate is the light emitted as stars convert mass back to DOE as described by tocopherol = mc^2 . And that light is dimming because , simply put , the fuel for the stars is bleed out .
" Once you ’ve burn up all the fuel in the universe , fundamentally , that ’s it , " Joe Liske of the University of Hamburg , one of the member of the research team , toldNPR . " The star die , like a fervour dies , and then you have ember leave over that then beam but finally cool down . And the fire just move out . "
On the human scale , there ’s no penury to panic . scientist meditate the creation has at least a few billion years left to live . But on the astronomic scale , the universe is downright geriatric . " The creation has basically sat down on the couch , pulled up a mantle and is about to nod off for an unceasing doze , " Driver say in a ( kind of depressing)statement .
