Hesperides immortal as long as he touched his mother, Gaia, the earth. Heracles killed Antaeus by holding him aloft and crushing him in a bearhug. Herodotus claims that Heracles stopped in Egypt, where King Busiris decided to make him the yearly sacrifice, but Heracles burst out of his chains. Finally making his way to the Garden of the Hesperides, Heracles tricked Atlas into retrieving some of the golden apples for him, by offering to hold up the heavens for a little while (Atlas was able to take them as, in this version, he was the father or otherwise related to the
Ultimate fate of the universe universe would remain static. After Hubble announced his conclusion that the universe was expanding, Einstein wrote that his cosmological constant was "the greatest blunder of my life." An important parameter in fate of the universe theory is the density parameter, omega (formula_1), defined as the average matter density of the universe divided by a critical value of that density. This selects one of three possible geometries depending on whether formula_1 is equal to, less than, or greater than formula_3. These are called, respectively, the flat, open and closed universes. These three adjectives refer to the overall geometry of the universe,