Current Events > The sun will become a black dwarf in 1 quadrillion years

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dwarf

How the heck do scientists calculate these things? :O

that's racist

Whachu talking about Willis?

Wonder what the outer planets will be like when that happens.

besides, we need more Red Dwarf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

We need to do something about this

When I think about the far future of the universe, I get disturbed. Especially if it ends in Heat Desth instead of Big Crunch. If it ends in a Big Crunch, then there is a possibility that someday there might be another Big Bang, and a new universe

If it ends in Heat Death, I feel like everything is just over forever. And I sometimes imagine all the planets in the universe, and asteroids and stuff, still floating around after the last star has vanished. And there is no light in the entire universe.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Wonder what the outer planets will be like when that happens.

Given enough time, probably sling shotted out of the solar system/galaxy by another star or big body long long before the sun goes black dwarf.

Zikten posted...

If it ends in Heat Death, I feel like everything is just over forever. And I sometimes imagine all the planets in the universe, and asteroids and stuff, still floating around after the last star has vanished. And there is no light in the entire universe.

It is kind of sad if you think about it.

it's already kind of sad when you consider how much space there is compared to the microscopic size of the bubble we live in and the stars look big to us but really it's mostly empty space in every direction.

Only about 0.0000000000000000000042% of the Universe contains any matter.

We will have colonized and fucked up like 2000 planets and be long gone from here by then.

Hahaha

Whats even more interesting is in about 4 billion years when the sun starts to expand, eating Mercury, Venus, and Earth.

Around that same time the Andromeda Galaxy is expected to collide with the Milky Way, which would be an insane thing to see in the night sky.

Someday Andromeda will be visible with the naked eye in the night sky. Assuming human life exists that long.

Zikten posted...

If it ends in Heat Death, I feel like everything is just over forever. And I sometimes imagine all the planets in the universe, and asteroids and stuff, still floating around after the last star has vanished. And there is no light in the entire universe.

So, one, science is leaning towards heat death, which is the most neutral ending. And second, what actually happens to all matter depends on whether or not protons decay. Modern science has no idea if protons decay or not. But if they do, there will be literally nothing, as opposed to theoretically nothing.

But look on the bright side, by the time this is ever an issue, you and all of your descendants will be long gone and won't have to see it.

BroodRyu posted...

Someday Andromeda will be visible with the naked eye in the night sky. Assuming human life exists that long

It is already visible.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/7/AAA_aCAAET2V.jpg

Fuck! I'm not ready for this!

I'll probably be dead by then

probably

Crazyman93 posted...

So, one, science is leaning towards heat death,

damnit. no new game for anyone if ever die.

kingdrake2 posted...

damnit. no new game for anyone if ever die.

Well, based on probability, it's entirely likely a new universe randomly forms. In an infinite time, infinite things can happen.

Don't worry, if it makes you feel any better you are infinitesimally small and nothing you ever do or think matters on the scale of space and time.

If a new universe was birthed, do you think it would be just like this one or would there be different "rules"? Like in the next universe, could magic exist?

MabusIncarnate posted...

We will have colonized and fucked up like 2000 planets and be long gone from here by then.

Humans will never leave earth. We won't advance tech fast enough before civilisation crumbles to climate damage and biodiversity collapse

Zikten posted...

If a new universe was birthed, do you think it would be just like this one or would there be different "rules"? Like in the next universe, could magic exist?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Meillassoux

After Finitude. I'm just guessing probably.

Matter is clearly of this universe.

Foppe posted...

It is already visible.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/7/AAA_aCAAET2V.jpg

Alpheratz is almost as cool of a name as Betelgeuse

we'll be lucky if humanity lasts another 200 years, let alone a couple thousand lol

and no one will be there to see it

a lot of it they just make up

Nukazie posted...

and no one will be there to see it

For sure. I'm pretty sure that long before the universe finally well and truly dies, it will become inhospitable to any form of life.

Pikachuchupika posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dwarf

How the heck do scientists calculate these things? :O

Things like thermodynamics and entropy can make stuff like this pretty predictable. There's only so much energy in a given system and knowing how fast it burns off can tell you how long that system has left to continue. Stars don't make energy, they just expend it so assuming no other energy enters that system the means to calculate the lifespan of that star can be attained.

shironinja posted...

it's already kind of sad when you consider how much space there is compared to the microscopic size of the bubble we live in and the stars look big to us but really it's mostly empty space in every direction.

Only about 0.0000000000000000000042% of the Universe contains any matter.

It's a good thing actually. If there were more matter that means things would be very chaotic. Stuff would be everywhere bouncing and colliding with each other. Life probably wouldn't even exist. The universe is pretty logical.

Y'all think Elder Scrolls 6 will be out by then...?

https://youtu.be/Zb5qTdb6LbM