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You won’t get any time off though, and will still have to go into work.
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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!!
And wouldn’t you know, it falls on a Monday. Classic.
how does it affect my bank loan?
You and your lineage will save 10^1022 payments.
Look at them getting my hopes up and then seeing the exponent. Sadface.
Impatient much? It seems like an eternity when you’re young, then it’s here before you know it.
“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.The key is arbitrarily large timescales. It doesn’t really matter how small the chance of spontaneous self-organisation of a state of maximum entropy is because the timescales involved are effectively infinite.
Ah yea, the topological restart !
Quite frankly given enough time I’m confident we could do pretty much anything. I mean look at us, with our blackboards, our theories, our banging two rocks against each other.
Thinking like this is what ensures that the most powerful beings in the universe will never let us evolve past monkeys on skateboards.
oh man, thats where i keep all my stuff
You own stuff? Lucky…
Well, so much for my retirement.
Eh, you were never gonna retire anyway. Thanks trump.
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”
That’s my mom. I’ve spent a lot of time lately explaining what click-bait articles are, and how they have very misleading headlines, and you can’t just read the headline and think you know the story.
We live in Florida, and I just showed her a headline that said that Disney was closing down the Hollywood Studios location, but they worded the headline without a “the” or “a”. - “Disney closes Hollywood Studios Location.” It sounds like Hollywood Studios is closing, a major development if true.
But when you read the article, it isn’t “the” Hollywood Studios location that was shut down, it was “a” Hollywood Studios location that was shut down, an old tribute to animation exhibit, which is due to be replaced with an updated one. So not the entire Hollywood Studios, as the headline implied, just a small section of it.
It wasn’t even a new story, the old location has been closed for years, and this replacement exhibit was announced a long time ago. So they ran a headline implying that an entire Disney theme Park was closing down, when they were just updating an exhibit, like they do every single day.
She’s always telling me about a major corporate chain that is closing, because she read a misleading headline about how they are closing 10 stores, without mentioning that they are also opening 100, so it sounds like the chain is out of business. Every time we pass a Cracker Barrel, she wonders out loud when they are finally going to close down after she read that click-bait headline 3 years ago. I’m tired of explaining that one, so I just say I don’t know, I hate them, so I hope it’s soon.
“I saw an article that said the universe is going to end in 10.78 years!” “10 to the power of 78, not 10 point 7 8…” “That’s what I said! That’s less than eleven years!”
I won’t last more than 10^1.78 years from now, and the sun won’t last more than 10^9.78 years. That still leaves an unfathomable number of years until we get to 10^78
immortals might have to make other plans, like going to another universe.
I’m guessing if you’re immortal, you already know how to do that.
Maybe they only just started being immortals.
the xeelee would like a word
There go my weekend plans
Honestly, same
This is all fringe science. It’s a new conjecture based on a controversial conjecture.
Hopefully someone who understands this better can provide a deeper explanation. I recall at high level why the original paper was not widely accepted.
The paper this is based on is not really hawking radiation because that requires an event horizon. They claimed gravity is enough which is extraordinary claim. Essentially redescribing something that can be more easily explained by other more widely accepted effects.
