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Published online 5 November 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041101-15
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Cosmic doomsday delayed
Universe won't end for 24 billion years... probably.
You can breathe a sigh of relief: the Universe will last for at least the next 24 billion years, according to astrophysicists who have modelled the mysterious force of dark energy to work out the fate of the cosmos.
Andrei Linde, a theoretical astrophysicist from Stanford University, California, leads a team who previously predicted that the Universe might end as soon as 11 billion years from now1.
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