scientists have come up with the radical suggestion that the universe's end may come not with a bang or a crunch but with a standstill - that time could be literally running out and could, one day, stop altogether.
the idea that time itself could cease to be in billions of years - and everything will grind to a halt - has been set out by professor josé senovilla, marc mars and raül vera of the spanish universities of salamanca and the basque country.
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