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First thing to know: the weight of present observational evidence is that our Universe is NOT closed (ie, it will not contract back on itself) but will, instead, expand forever.

The first person to use the mathematics of General Relativity to show that our Universe can be either closed or open was Alexander Friedmann. His work was purely mathematical, and he made no attempt to discern which solution is an accurate description of our Universe.

In 1931, Edwin Hubble showed that our Universe was expanding. Since then, scientists have tried to discern whether this expansion would lead to an open universe or a closed one. Over the decades, scientists were surprised at just how close to either possibility our Universe happened to be -- it was like somehow threw a ball onto the top of the Empire State Building, at the ball just happened to land such that it balanced perfectly on the top.

In 1998, observational evidence showed beyond a doubt that the expansion rate of our Universe is increasing over time. Thus, we happen to live in an open universe.

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