Well there goes my plans
Eh, the lifespan of the “useful” universe with like stars and planets and stuff has always been way below the hypothetical hawking radiation heat death number. It’s cool that hawking radiation doesn’t just happen with black holes though.
There goes my plans
So in other words the universe is only about 0.000000000001% through its lifespan?
My god we’re running out of time
We only just reailsed we could be doing abundance! noo
shit that’s gonna shave a few quadrillion infinities off the final score, run is done
Something something christopher caudwell arguing about the bourgeois influence on science but not in a trotskyist denial of the big bang sort of way
Shit! The economy!
"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—”
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
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.
Oh I’m not smart enough for that, I just like lasers and spaceships and aliens 👽
But that’s where I keep all my stuff!
Shit, how many business days is that?
Shit, I’d really better get around to doing everything I want to. 10^78 years will come by fast!
I’m doing my part!
thank goodness. what is that in human years?
26 transhumanist vampire billionaire vc fundings followed by a temporary prison sentence, a presidential pardon and a lifetime of upward failings worth of money years.
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.
what if the big bang was the end of life as they knew it
and so it was
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 doesn’t make the big bang the beginning of life either way
Fair enough, science was always my worst subject (despite my best attempts.)
I read something that suggests this to be the case, something about some constant not matching up with observations of expansion rates. Roger Penrose was talking about it iirc.
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.
hawking radiation stuff is craz ngl. not to reddit out, but science is cool
I fucking love it
