Hum,
So yes, it would be a milestone in the history of our universe, as important as the formation of hydrogen ... or the first stars lighting up, or the last blackhole evaporating... .
And because they have been distracted with some sort of anthropic argument it is that last point that they seem to have missed.
The last blackhole evaporating, or last particle transforming into radiation, is even further away in time, thousands of trillions of years in the future; But, when that happens, every single particle will be isolated. And it would be then that some would propose that all the conditions are met to create a new `bigbang` and a new universe. (Another milestone)
The Return to the Static Universe
See `Cyclic universe` or `time`
BTW, they have updated their original paper today (Version 2)
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