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Sara Webb does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the early universe—and that the universe could start contracting at some point.