And the theory is known as the Big Crunch.

他们的理论被称为大危机理论。

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From the Big Bang to black holes, from dark matter to a possible Big Crunch, our image of the universe today is full of strange sounding ideas, and remarkable truths.

从创世大爆炸到黑洞，从黑色物质到可能出现的大坍缩，我们今天的宇宙观充满前所未知的观点和引人注目的真知灼见。

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The discovery means that the universe is likely to continue expanding indefinitely, instead of reaching a steady state or collapsing back in on itself in what some call a "big crunch."

这项发现意味着，宇宙可能不会到达稳定阶段，也不会像有人提到的“大挤压”那样收缩会永远膨胀下去，反而可能会无休止地膨胀下去。

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Ms. BRIGNONE: It would put us in a big crunch because we are basically covering the money for the state.

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At the moment astrophysicists are trying to figure out whether the universe will collapse in a big crunch, expand at just the right rate to avoid collapse, or expand very rapidly.

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By November 2007, when the narrative ends, it was already clear to Mr Morris that this crisis was much more serious than the last big crunch, the 1998 Russian debt default and the bail-out of Long-Term Capital Management, an American hedge fund, by a group of banks under the Fed's direction.

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