The death of the universe
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The shape, contents and future of the universe are all intricately related. We know that it’s mostly flat; we know that it’s made up of baryonic matter (like stars and planets), but mostly dark matter and dark energy; and we know that it’s expanding constantly, so that all stars will eventually burn out into a cold nothingness. So is there any beauty of this dark ending?
When we describe dark matter, we often say that it is ‘weakly interacting’ or ‘collisionless.’ Dark matter exists in our solar system. Do you think that there is dark matter in the room you are sitting in now? Why/why not?
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