recollapse

A closed universe whose energy density is dominated by matter will one day recollapse.

Our Spontaneous Universe 2010

¦ A few of the little bubbles, however, will grow to a certain size at which they are safe from recollapse.

Behe's response to Many Universes Hypothesis 2007

Note also that in the extended stage each black hole may be causally disconnected from any others, so no observer at any given location seeing a neighbouring hole come back into view as the recollapse got underway could be sure that this hole had always been in the same cosmos!

Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008

This is typically a reference to the question of whether the universe will recollapse, forcing all its contents into smaller and smaller volumes, increasing the pressure and the temperature, or whether it will expand forever, gradually cooling to ever lower extremes of temperature.

Putting the Heat in the Hot Big Bang Mark 2008

Third, though each recollapse would destroy the components of the universe, the radiation would remain, so that each successive cycle would add to the total.

Cosmological Argument Reichenbach, Bruce 2008

Einstein and Wheeler believed that the universe was closed and would someday recollapse, because a universe that was finite in time felt right to them.

Beyond the Room Sean 2008

A popular model of the FRW cosmology was a recollapse model, which is similar to ballistic flight.

A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

This will then be the final state of the universe, as it appears recollapse does not happen, which occurs as time — infinity.

A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

If there was a negative cosmological constant, then the universe would recollapse in on itself.

A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

A second question was a standard one I get in public lectures, although these students seemed to have more background than the general public, - “We know that the universe is expanding; do we know if it is infinite in size or not, and whether it will expand forever or eventually recollapse?”

High School Physics Free-For-All Mark 2007