The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice…” *
What will be the final destiny of the Universe? Probably it will end in ice, if we are to believe this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics. They have studied several dozen exploding stars, called supernovae, and discovered that the Universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates themselves.

Also see Universe Today and the New York TImes

For background I have some links at Really long range thinking and Long range forecast: Very, very cold and very, very dark,