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            Does Timescapes Disprove Dark Energy?
                
                    
                        
                            Season 10
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 32
                        
                    
                
            
            
            The universe is expanding and that expansion is accelerating under the power of dark energy and eventually all matter and energy will be dispersed over such unthinkable distances that nothing can stop space from blowing up infinitely. Unless of course cosmologists blundered and dark energy doesn't even exist. Then it's back to the drawing board.
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