Fire and Ice
A recent consensus among cosmologists holds that the universe will expand forever and ever. By the time the cosmos doubles in size, its temperature will drop by half. By the time it doubles again, its temperature will halve once more. Tyson discusses how the temperature of the expanding universe wil...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Natural history 2005-12, Vol.114 (10), p.20 |
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Zusammenfassung: | A recent consensus among cosmologists holds that the universe will expand forever and ever. By the time the cosmos doubles in size, its temperature will drop by half. By the time it doubles again, its temperature will halve once more. Tyson discusses how the temperature of the expanding universe will continue to descend, approaching ever closer to absolute zero. |
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ISSN: | 0028-0712 |