“It may be that the universe we live in is inherently unstable and at some point billions of years from now it’s all going to get wiped out,” said Lykken, who is also on the science team at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.
via Universe Has Finite Lifespan, Higgs Boson Calculations Suggest.
Nah, just joshing ya.
But, it does make sense given what else we know through the Gospel of Science.
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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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“A little bubble of what you might think of as an ‘alternative’ universe will appear somewhere and then it will expand out and destroy us,” …
I thought that had already started at the Resurrection, and the expansion was still in progress – and will destroy only those of us who are not born again in the alternative universe otherwise known as the Kingdom of God. Or something like that.
Pish posh. Stop reading Tom Wright and start reading Ken Ham.
But, Dr. Who can “reboot” the universe.