From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!teklabs!ucbcad!ARPAVAX:CSVAX:npois!npoiv!harpo!uwvax!doug@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Re: Hawking lifespan of Universe
Article-I.D.: uwvax.565
Posted: Mon Aug 16 12:37:15 1982
Received: Sat Aug 21 02:15:23 1982


Whether the universe will eventually expand out and die in the so-called
"heat death" or pull back on itself and start all over is still very
much in question.  The answer apparently hinges on the actual amount
of MASS in the universe.  Cosmologists are forever trying to find mass -
is there some hidden in black holes? are there "halos" of magnetic
monopoles hovering about?  etc?