THE universe will start to shrink in just 7billion years, a new study has claimed, upending the prediction that space is ever ...

The size of the universe is a question that has fascinated humanity for centuries. ... The universe has been expanding ever since the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago.

Discover why physicists think our universe may have ten dimensions—or more. By Paul Halpern Thursday, April 3, 2014 The Nature of Reality The Nature of Reality Share ...

It’s essentially a reverse Big Bang, which scientists have dubbed the “Big Crunch”. Using data from a number of astronomical ...

How the universe could possibly have more dimensions : Read more Quite a report and interesting 2:46 video from Paul Sutter. The report made some interesting comments.

When someone mentions "different dimensions," we tend to think of things like parallel universes – alternate realities that exist parallel to our own, but where things work or happened differently.

Some time in the future, when the universe is twice the size it is now, ... The most distant quasars are as far away as 30 billion light years, but the universe is only 13.8 billion years old.

However, a new idea challenges this theory, suggesting that time, specifically in three dimensions, is the true fabric of the universe, with space emerging as a secondary effect..

Space, as Douglas Adams once so aptly wrote, is big. To try imagining how big, place a penny down in front of you. If our sun were the size of that penny, the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, would ...

More than 13.7 billion years ago, there's a little gap in the timeline that scientists don't quite understand. Somehow, in the blink of an eye, the very earliest matter in the universe snapped ...

In other words, the strings don't just wiggle, they wiggle hyperdimensionally. Current versions of string theory require 10 dimensions total, while an even more hypothetical über-string theory ...