Scientists Know When The World Will End

[From article]
New data further confirms that our 13.8 billion-year-old universe is well past its prime, and is slowly fading out.
The Australian-led project known as Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) has been measuring the energy output of stars for the last few years, and the team of 100 scientists discovered that the output is only half what it was 2 billion years ago.
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Joe Liske, one of the researchers and a professor at the University of Hamburg, compared the process to a dying fire. “The stars die, like a fire dies, and then you have embers left over that then glow but eventually cool down,” Liske told NPR. “And the fire just goes out.”
Luckily, the fire won’t go out for at least a few more billion year

http://nypost.com/2015/08/12/the-universe-is-past-its-prime-and-slowly-dying/

Scientists have pinpointed when the world will end
By Lauren Tousignant
New York Post
August 12, 2015 | 1:55pm

Fly through of the GAMA Galaxy Survey with voice over from ICRAR on Vimeo.