Getting back to blogging with something appropriately cheerful, here’re some astrophysicists who’ve run the numbers and think the universe might end before the sun burns out:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1316154/Time-end-3-7bn-years-it.html
The only way to make our current universe work is to include a catastrophe at some point in the future which ends time – and takes us with it.
Using complicated theoretical physics and advanced mathematics the team calculated when this is most likely to occur.
Bousso says: in the study: ‘Time is unlikely to end in our lifetime, but there is a 50 per cent chance that time will end within the next 3.7 billion years.’
This means that time and the universe would end before our own Sun has died.
Other physicists give us slightly longer, calculating the end of time to occur within the next five billion years.
But there is some good news. The research team say that, due to physics
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This means the interest on my student loans no longer increase!
Meh, a lot can happen in 3.7 billion years. Maybe we’ll find a way to emigrate to a new universe or create our own or something.