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In the far future the expansion of space will carry every other galaxy beyond the reach of our telescopes, leaving the astronomers of that era with an empty sky and no way to ever discover that the Big Bang happened
The universe is expanding, and the expansion is speeding up. Run that forward far enough and the consequence is bleak: one by one, every galaxy beyond our own immediate neighbourhood will be carried so far away that its light can no longer reach us. The astronomers of that distant era would look up at an almost empty sky, and they would have no way, from observation alone, to ever discover that the Big Bang happened. This is not idle speculation…
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