APPARENTLY, I’VE BEEN USING THE WORD “IMMINENT” INCORRECTLY: Researchers Predict ‘Imminent Collapse’ Of Universe After Period Of Rapid Expansion. “Physicists Nemanja Kaloper at the University of California Davis and Antonio Padilla at the University of Nottingham proposed the ‘imminent’ collapse – which on the cosmological scale is a few tens of billions of years from today.”