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How Will the Universe End?

The Joy of Why

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The Heat Death of the Universe

The heat death is the one that is considered to be most accepted in physics. It's sometimes called the big freeze colloquially. The universe gets more and more empty, more and more diffuse colder over time because of dark energy. When you get to the stage where everything is decayed away, you reach what's called maximum entropy.

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