the end of everything

[ispom]

>>>Look forward millions, trillions, and even 10^100 years into the future. Let's consider the end of everything.<<<

so begins an article describing our future. found here:

http://www.universetoday.com/2007/07/25/the-end-of-everything/

in the first instance we look on the end of humanity:

>>>To think that humans can avoid the fate of every other creature is arrogant. Like all life on Earth, our time is limited. How long will we last?
There are many natural and man made disasters that could wipe us out. From an asteroid strike to worldwide pandemic; global warming to a nearby supernova detonation - there are many ways we could go.<<<
furthermore we consider the fate of the Sun, our galaxy…and eventually the entire universe,
it will dilute up to a nothing….

but the multiverse is infinite in time!

[ving (David)]

bleak indeed...

apparently we have as little as 100 year at the rate we are going or so i have heard... i doubt this to be true though.

[leon]

Well, that was an interesting read, and yep, i suppose we wont last for ever, but it wont worry me to much as i will well and truly be dust.

leon

[mill (Martin)]

People who waste money and time into the end of live should first of all find a way how to save lives.
Too much money is spend on useless stuff

[Ric]

Great article Ispom, very interesting indeed.

So 100 trillion years and that's it then. We should stop all the global squabbling and get on with it, so much to do and so little time to do it.

Cheers

[ispom]

be happy, our universe is not solely:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0511/0511037v1.pdf

In the Austin airport on the way to this meeting I noticed for sale
the October issue of a magazine called Astronomy, having on the cover the
headline:
“Why You Live in Multiple Universes.” Inside I found a report of
a discussion at a conference at Stanford, at which Martin Rees said that
he was sufficiently confident about the multiverse to bet his dog’s life on
it, while Andrei Linde said he would bet his own life. As for me, I have
just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei
Linde and Martin Rees’s dog.

(Stephen Weinberg)

I’m with Weinberg…..

[astroron (Ron)]

I once wrote to Martin Reese telling him I thought it was a load of crap, it makes for selling plenty of books, but with little if any chance of ever proving the exsistance of Multiverses, it seems to me to be a grat waste of resourses.
As astronomer Royal , the British tax payer is paying for this load of dribble.
My fifty cents worth

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Will this affect my super!?

[mill (Martin)]

Originally Posted by dugnsuz

Will this affect my super!?

Ooooohh yes you will have to start over again in the great unnown

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by mill

Ooooohh yes you will have to start over again in the great unnown

[duncan]

Hi all,
I doubt we will have to wait that long anyway. Did anyone see the show on Nat Geo about mega-volcanoes? There are a few of these babies just waiting in the wings. Yellowstone is probably the most likely one to go off and if it does, well i hope i'm not around to witness it. Made for a very interesting show.

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by astroron

I once wrote to Martin Reese telling him I thought it was a load of crap, it makes for selling plenty of books, but with little if any chance of ever proving the exsistance of Multiverses, it seems to me to be a grat waste of resourses.
As astronomer Royal , the British tax payer is paying for this load of dribble.
My fifty cents worth

Good on you for expressing your opinion direct.
I would rather hear your view than about the subject matter to which it relates and I got great value out of your 50 cents worth.

But perhaps you have not heard we need to fold the "brane on which we live" so as the explain the apparent weak force of gravity ... and dark matter is in fact gravitational recognition of objects in another universe... seems logical...
who buys this crap... and to think there are those who think this talk is reasonable...

As to the end of humans one must remember extinction is the rule..evolution is the exception and creation is there to keep our minds off the facts.

alex