The Future of the Universe

• The "near" astrophysical future
• The "far" astrophysical future
• Structure formation at late times
• Figures from Nagamine & Loeb 2003:
  
• Local structure in the future
• Future mass function
• Local Group and Virgo
• The end of observational cosmology
• The big rip
• The big rip timeline (for w=-1.5, from Caldwell, Kamionkowski, and Weinberg 2003)