Mankind wrecks planet's climate, then exterminates entire universe

(((Wait a minute – in the entire 13.7 billion year history of the universe, nobody *else* ever made these "anthropic" observations about dark energy? That's a tad *egotistical,* isn't it? And these "observers" who are shortening the lifespan of the universe – that's not "mankind,"
that's just eighty, ninety anthropic cosmologists, tops, right?
Couldn't the rest of us get them to meet in some festschrift for Wheeler and then quietly exterminate them all? Who would notice?)))

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Mankind 'shortening the universe's life' - Telegraph

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"New Scientist reports a worrying new variant as the cosmologists claim that astronomers may have accidentally nudged the universe closer to its death by observing dark energy, a mysterious anti gravity force which is thought to be speeding up the expansion of the cosmos.

"The damaging allegations are made by Profs Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and James Dent of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, who suggest that by making this observation in 1998 we may have caused the cosmos to revert to an earlier state when it was more likely to end.

"Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may have reduced the life-expectancy of the universe," Prof Krauss tells New Scientist....

(((*Okay, even granted that we accidentally wrecked the universe back in 1998, can't we fire up some "exceptionally simple" E8 algebraic geometry and build a FRESH universe?)))