The return of a static universe and the end of cosmology

@article{Krauss2007TheRO,
  title={The return of a static universe and the end of cosmology},
  author={Lawrence Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer},
  journal={General Relativity and Gravitation},
  year={2007},
  volume={39},
  pages={1545-1550}
}
We demonstrate that as we extrapolate the current ΛCDM universe forward in time, all evidence of the Hubble expansion will disappear, so that observers in our “island universe” will be fundamentally incapable of determining the true nature of the universe, including the existence of the highly dominant vacuum energy, the existence of the CMB, and the primordial origin of light elements. With these pillars of the modern Big Bang gone, this epoch will mark the end of cosmology and the return of a… 
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