Also, let's take time to be thankful for our wonderful but unsung Magnetosphere. Without it, violent solar and electromagnetic radiation would bombard our planet and cause many problems to life as we know it (eg: disabling communication satellites, mobile phones, affect sleep patterns, & radiation poisoning of everything).
Gooooo Magnet Power!
I, too, am a fan of opposing forces combating each other.
Take that as you will.
It's not shrinking. It's actually expanding pretty damn quickly. But they think it might start shrinking eventually. Either that, or it will keep expanding until it reaches maximum entropy, and nothing can happen. Or it might just keep expanding. Or the simulation might end and we all go back to our real bodies.
But then when you're talking about something as complex as the the nature or the fate of the universe, then all you can really say is that we don't have enough data.
Then Through the Wormhole lied to me. Damn you, Morgan Freeman!