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Today you'll learn about why some physicists think time may be slowing down and how it might eventually

stop.

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Most scientists would tell you the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate

but according to a team of Spanish physicists the expansion of the universe might not be the thing that's changing its rate.

They say time itself might be slowing down, and that means it could eventually stop altogether.

If these researchers are right, then they definitely deserve a slow clap.

A slowing clap just slower.

Yes. I see what you did there, Cody.

Here's one way to think about this idea. After an ambulance or police

car with a siren drives past you, the pitch starts to drop. That's because of

what's called the Doppler effect and it happens because the sound waves start to stretch out as the siren gets

further away from you, meaning they reach you at a slower rate. But what if the laws of physics

changed after it drove past you? So instead of its speed causing that drop in frequency, it was the

passage of time. If time were slowing down, that would also make the sound waves reach you at

a lower frequency. That's the gist of this idea. We know the universe is expanding

at an accelerating rate because galaxies further away from us have a greater red shift than galaxies

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