Transcript: `Nature' Report Suggests Universe Will Expand Forever

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June 13, 1996
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In "Nature" a new report on an old controversy suggests the universe will expand forever with stars gradually burning out. The opposing theory is the ``big crunch'' as gravity pulls all matter back together.

BOB EDWARDS, Host: A report published today in the magazine Nature suggests that the universe will expand forever, and as all the stars burn out it will end in a whimper rather than a bang. The report is the latest word - certainly not the last - in a controversy over the fate of the universe. The controversy was kindled a few years ago when astronomers made the obviously impossible suggestion that some stars in the universe are older than ...

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