Singapore Mathematical Society

Public Lecture

Microwave Background

New Ideas about the End of Time

by

Assoc Prof. Brett McInnes

M42: Wisps of the Orion Nebula

Semeis 147: Supernova Remnant

Date:	2 Aug '03
Time:	10 am
Venue:	Lecture Theatre 25 Faculty of Science National University of Singapore

NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster

Abstract: Traditionally, cosmologists envisioned essentially two possible ways in which the universe could end: either in a Big Crunch, in which the universe is squashed, or a Big Freeze, in which the universe expands forever. The recent revolution in cosmology, founded on the astounding discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, opened up a whole new range of exciting possibilities, some of which have only recently been discovered. Some of these new ways for the universe to end are so strange that they are literally unimaginable

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