You won’t get any time off though, and will still have to go into work.
So the estimate went from:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
To:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
That is a big reduction. About as big as from that second number to how long your life is going to be.
oh man, thats where i keep all my stuff
You own stuff? Lucky…
Don’t worry, any stuff that doesn’t fit into the universe probably doesn’t matter.
There go my weekend plans
Shit, just when we thought we’d found a time everyone was free for D&D.
Jesus fucking christ now I’m going to half to explain math and deep time to my mother and mother in law again.
“1d10, I just read that the universe is ending soon”
Well, so much for my retirement.
Eh, you were never gonna retire anyway. Thanks trump.
I was a musician, and math was my very worst subject, but if my calculations are correct, that’s about a month from now! EVERYBODY PANIC!!
I was a musician, and math was my very worst subject
How? I majored in Music Education and Computer Science, and minored in Psychology and Physics. I did that specifically because I thought Music, Physics, and Computer Science were all just math. I was correct about the first two. I would call CS linguistics, not math. The psych explains how the first two are math.
I would call CS linguistics
I got out of taking any languages classes in college because Computer Science classes (of which I took exactly one, Pascal) satisfied the requirement. It’s fucking rubbish to imagine learning a programming language is anything like learning a real human language. If there is any similarity at all, it’s like learning Esperanto.
I would agree that using CS as a way to not take a foreign language is some utter bullshit. The reason I compare it to linguistics, not a language, is that most of coding seems to be figuring out the correct syntax to tell the machine what you actually want it to do. There’s actually very little in the way of mathematics, or even arithmetic, in CS, so I find the widespread comparison to be less than helpful.
Then what happens?
Nothing. Forever.
Either that, or we find out that the oscillating universe theory was correct.
That’s what I want to think is correct, eventually it will all slam back into one point, triggering a new big bang. Rinse wash repeat
I think current measurements show expansion itself increasing, which means gravity is already too weak to decrease expansion and will continue getting weaker. There’s definitely open questions, but most current observations and models do not point toward the universe ever collapsing back to a single point.
I would think the expansion force more likely to be limited in that it would eventually subside and gravitational pull take over. I don’t have any associated education or knowledge but I guess it feels intuitive to me that the explosive forces from the big Bang would eventually subside to a point gravitational pull, which to my understanding isn’t limited by distance, would start bringing everything back together. Obviously oversimplified because I’m dumb but I’m saying this to pose the question, does what you stated conflict with that possibility?
If expansion were caused by “explosive forces from the big Bang”, it’s rate would be decreasing, not increasing.
Since current observations are inconsistent with that, we have to have a different (or at least additional) cause for expansion.
As the universe expands, distances grow, but mass does not. This causes the overall force of gravity to decrease. This means gravity is “losing” and will never catch up. (Gravity is weakening and expansion is growing). But, if it the rate of expansion were decreasing, that would mean gravity was “winning”, and might continue “winning” until it could reverse expansion.
But the rate of expansion would increase until a point where it no longer did? Are we somehow able to confidently assume we are past that point?
If gravity could ever overcome expansion, then there would be some period where expansion was happening, but the rate of expansion was decreasing, eventually followed by expansion stopping, then contraction happening and the rate of contraction increasing. There would not be any period in which the rate of expansion was increasing.
(When you throw a ball up, after you release it, there’s a period of time when the ball is moving up, but it’s speed is decreasing, then it reaches the apex, and it start falling down and it’s speed increases until you catch it. There is no period where it upward speed increases.)
Current observations show not just that expansion continues, but that the rate of expansion is increasing.
(Not only has the big bang thrown the ball, but the ball’s upward speed is increasing.)
Darkness
One Way Ticket to Hell and Back?
immortals might have to make other plans, like going to another universe.
But would the snail be able to follow you to the new universe?
I understood that reference. My god I’m old.
“So the ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time,”
I still think we should destroy it. We basically have to options here:
- The universe decays and turns into huge, cold void that can’t support any life an last forever
- We destroy it and hope that new universe will be created out of nothing again
Option 1 is certain death. With option 2 there’s at least some hope for a new beginning.
Of course we don’t have a way to destroy the universe yet but we have 10^78 years to figure it out. Once we have the means to start some chain reaction that rips space time itself and destroys the entire universe we should do it.
Option 1 is hope for a new beginning too depending on certain theories.
There’s a lot of fancy math involved that I don’t understand but the upshot is that mathematically a completely barren uniform universe and an infinitely dense point are technically identical and theoretically one could spontaniously become the other.
