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Understanding the Universe
Will the universe expand
forever or eventually stop expanding and collapse in on itself? Jay M.
Pasachoff, professor of astronomy at Williams
College in Williamstown, Massachusetts,
confronts this question in this discussion of cosmology. Whether the universe
will go on expanding forever depends on whether there is enough critical
density to halt or reverse the expansion, and the answer to that question may,
in turn, depend on the existence of something the German-born American
physicist Albert Einstein once labeled the cosmological constant.
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