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It's official. The universe is dying.

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It's official. The universe is dying.
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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 10, 2015 at 10:27 pm
You sure it's not just humanity that's dying out and the universe will inevitably carry on as normal?
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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 10, 2015 at 10:28 pm
(August 10, 2015 at 10:27 pm)vixene Wrote: You sure it's not just humanity that's dying out and the universe will inevitably carry on as normal?

You are such an optimist!  Anyway, it does not matter if the universe ends or not.  People get upset over nothing.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 10, 2015 at 10:34 pm
(August 10, 2015 at 10:28 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(August 10, 2015 at 10:27 pm)vixene Wrote: You sure it's not just humanity that's dying out and the universe will inevitably carry on as normal?

You are such an optimist!  Anyway, it does not matter if the universe ends or not.  People get upset over nothing.

I hope it's just humanity that's dying out, because I'm ok with that.

Another humanoid type of beings may very well evolve again after hundreds of thousands of years and start again, but what's the chance of that happening with no universe?

Unless another big bang happens. But that's a lot more effort.
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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 10, 2015 at 11:20 pm
(August 10, 2015 at 10:09 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:
(August 10, 2015 at 9:12 pm)ignoramus Wrote: http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/the-...spartandhp



But where does all the energy go?

The volume of the universe is increasing at a large rate as the most distant objects we can detect are moving away from us at a high % of the speed of light.

The mass and energy of the universe are rapidly being diluted into an ever larger amount of space.

The cosmic background radiation is 2.73 degrees above absolute zero, and was much higher in the past, and will continue to diminish into the far future.

In some extremely remote era of the universe, the mass and energy will be so diluted as to be all but undetectable, and the universe will continue to expand to even larger size.

The universe, by means of it's expansion, is essentially erasing itself.



I'm getting depressed . . . .

Don't bubbles pop?

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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 10, 2015 at 11:22 pm
(August 10, 2015 at 10:27 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: My lower colon does not share in the general expansion of the universe

My waistline bloody well does.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 11, 2015 at 12:15 am
Meh I think they know too little and assume too much.
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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 11, 2015 at 12:52 am
Define "too little"
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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 11, 2015 at 2:49 am
One has to remember that not all of the Universe can actually be observed and as time advances that less and less of it will be since it is
expanding away from here in all directions beyond the speed of light [ this does not violate general relativity as it applies to the Universe  
itself rather than some phenomena within it which would be a violation of g r ] And so there will therefore come a point then at which no
stars will be visible in this local region of space at all. But that will be academic because by then the Earth will have been atomised by the
Sun after it goes red giant expanding as far as Mercurys orbit. The mysterious force causing this expansion is dark energy but that is just
a placeholder until it can be determined what it actually is. One thing however is known about it : it has the properties of repulsive gravity

A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 11, 2015 at 3:29 am
Dark Energy could just be a cosmological constant and equivalently, constant vacuum energy. That's by far the most straightforward explanation, and almost unavoidable. In that case, adios universe, we barely knew thee.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: It's official. The universe is dying.
August 11, 2015 at 3:39 am
Well about fucking time. Now about that new Tool album.....
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