Accelerating expansion will eventually push every galaxy beyond the Local Group past the cosmic horizon, erasing the three pillars of Big Bang evidence. As Krauss and Scherrer argued, future astronomers would reasonably conclude they live in a static, eternal galaxy. What that says about what we may have already lost.
The universe is expanding, and the expansion is speeding up. Run that forward far enough and the consequence is bleak: one by one, every galaxy beyond our own immediate neighbourhood will be carried so far away that its light can no longer reach us. ... [3770 chars]

