Phil Plait at the Bad Astronomy Blog has a great new word: “Cosmortology”. The word comes up in relation to recent reports that observing dark energy might shorten the life of the universe; it would mean causing the death of the universe, or studying the death of the universe.

[The idea that observing dark energy might shorten the life of the universe is, by the way, debunked several times over.]

Via: Bad Astronomy Blog » UserFriendly buys into anthropocentric cosmortology

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