Trillions? Pah, that;s nuthin! This is a timeline of the next 10^{10^{10^{56}}} years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future …
If you're tired of the partisan controversies of the day, watching this video will put everything in a horrifying perspective that makes you want to stay in bed for a week, off Twitter, moaning quietly in a fetal position. You're welcome.https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1141367183903039488 …
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Fusion power is huge: > 150 billion years: Estimated supply lifespan of fusion power reserves if it is possible to extract all the deuterium from seawater, assuming 1995 world energy consumption.
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Nah. As a human, you get to be the only thing in that otherwise meaningless immensity of time and space which will ever be conscious of that immensity. That’s more than good enough to outweigh any amount of existential dread.
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It's such a fantasy! Extrapolating from beginning to end, literally trillions of orders of magnitude in time away from today, over some math results and journalistic interpretations of them. Looks like religion to me
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Many physicists come to the very same scientific extrapolations as depicted in the video. So they're not journalistic interpretations. Granted, some of the inferences might change in the face of changing understanding, but then that's just the nature of science.
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I guess I’m lucking for feeling refreshed after seeing my cosmic insignificance
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Thanks! I didn't need to sleep tonight anyways. Cool video.
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This doesn’t do that to me at all, and not just because my consciousness won’t be around to experience it. I don’t think the universe coming apart in a trillion years is a bad or good thing; hell, to begin with, I think it’s rank speculation posing as mathematical certainty.
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It basically hinges on the nature of dark energy. The most plausible view right now is continued accelerated expansion of space (with or without a 'big rip' at the end).
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Well done. It's Die Philosophie der Erlösung by Philipp Mainlander put in nowadays sci-fi style. With a Asimov's Last Question way out possibility, as the only difference. Who knows. Even idealism, although out of fashion, has its strong points. Humans tell themselves stories.
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