So in other words the universe is only about 0.000000000001% through its lifespan?
My god we're running out of time
shit that's gonna shave a few quadrillion infinities off the final score, run is done
I'm not sure if that's enough time to pay off my student loans....
Fuck, better get my bucket list in order then. /s
I don’t think life will cease to exist permanently in the universe though. I mean we can’t even be sure that the Big Bang was the start of life as we know it.
The big bang was the start of the universe, not the start of life.
The big bang was the start of the observable universe as we know it. That is a very important distinction.There is no telling what is beyond what we can observe. Science has no apparatus for guessing what is beyond the 13 (or is 14) billion light-year mark. It could be that that line is the limit of existence. It could be that there is infinite nothing beyond it. It could be that we are just one pocket in a greater universe. We do not know, and honestly I don't think there will ever be a way for us to know for sure.
Advancements in gravitational wave observations may allow us to "see" past the CMB. That would push back the time we can observe but likely won't change the fundamental limit you're describing.
But then the universe is everything right? Who’s to say there wasn’t “another universe” before the big bang?
That is an existing hypothesis, yes. That the universe is cyclical.
much like the cyclical nature of most other things within the universe.. it would make sense.
Fair enough, science was always my worst subject (despite my best attempts.)
Well, it also depends on how long the half life of protons are (if they decay). If it’s anywhere near the lower bound of 10^34 years, then baryonic matter would effectively cease to exist a lot sooner anyway.
I was totally confused by this as well. nowhere in the article (did not read the paper - sunday brain) did I see anything about proton decay timelines. as far as I was aware, its still up in the air if proton decay is even a thing. the strong force is... strong.
hawking radiation stuff is craz ngl. not to reddit out, but science is cool
"We’ve known about this stuff for years. What we didn’t expect was that the expansion would accelerate as it has. We thought we had trillions of years. Then the forecast was billions. And now—”
https://web.archive.org/web/20080603194211/http://www.solarisbooks.com/books/newbookscifi/last-contact.asp
I mean, if humanity is still around even millions of years in the future, I kind of imagine we'll have tech so advanced we could like move the earth to a pocket dimension or some shit.
Or maybe I just read too much scifi.
I just read too much scifi.
keep reading scifi, just start also reading physics, mathematics, etc
Oh I'm not smart enough for that, I just like lasers and spaceships and aliens 👽
If you can understand scifi you can understand physics. Maybe not the math part, but at least conceptually.
Scifi quickly turns to horror when it factors in how unfathomably huge space is and how slow physics forces us to interact with it all.
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