Timeline of the far future

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Post by speeq » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 4:34 PM UTC

Timeline of the far future
en.wikipedia.org

Re: Timeline of the far future

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Post by netgusto » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 4:45 PM UTC

Fascinating: "10^(10^50) years: Estimated time for a Boltzmann brain to appear in the vacuum via a spontaneous entropy decrease." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

> [...] a Boltzmann brain is a self-aware entity that arises due to extremely rare random fluctuations out of a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. [...]

Re: Timeline of the far future

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Post by oorza » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 4:49 PM UTC

netgusto wrote: post #2

Fascinating: "10^(10^50) years: Estimated time for a Boltzmann brain to appear in the vacuum via a spontaneous entropy decrease." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain > [...] a Boltzmann brain is a self-aware entity that arises due to extremely rare random fluctuations out of a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. [...]

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Re: Timeline of the far future

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Post by schintan » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 4:51 PM UTC

The further I read, the smaller I feel.

Re: Timeline of the far future

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Post by Kenji » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 4:55 PM UTC

schintan wrote: post #4

The further I read, the smaller I feel.

The further I read, the more I see unfalsifiable theories.

Re: Timeline of the far future

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Post by cknoxrun » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 4:59 PM UTC

schintan wrote: post #4

The further I read, the smaller I feel.

The further I read, the smaller some of the issues we face today seem. I could spend my life fighting to prevent global warming or fix the world, but this list just makes me want to enjoy the time I have here with my loved ones... I don't know how I feel about these feelings.

Re: Timeline of the far future

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Post by agumonkey » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 5:00 PM UTC

schintan wrote: post #4

The further I read, the smaller I feel.

I won't even click, I'm not sure I'll end up depressed.

Re: Timeline of the far future

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Post by 21 » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 5:01 PM UTC

> The length of the day used for astronomical timekeeping reaches about 86,401 SI seconds. Under the present-day timekeeping system, either a leap second would need to be added to the clock every single day, or else by then, in order to compensate, the length of the day would have had to have been officially lengthened by one SI second.

Can you just imagine the amount of legacy code with DAY_SECONDS=86400 out there 50k years from now?

Re: Timeline of the far future

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Post by 21 » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

cknoxrun wrote: post #6

schintan wrote: post #4

The further I read, the smaller I feel.

The further I read, the smaller some of the issues we face today seem. I could spend my life fighting to prevent global warming or fix the world, but this list just makes me want to enjoy the time I have here with my loved ones... I don't know how I feel about these feelings.

> According to Berger and Loutre, the current interglacial period ends[14] sending the Earth back into a glacial period of the current ice age, regardless of the effects of anthropogenic global warming.

According to that guy, there will be a new ice age in 50k years regardless of the current global warming being stopped or not.

Re: Timeline of the far future

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Post by johnchristopher » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 5:07 PM UTC

While the topic is on. I am trying to find a short story I read some years ago (4-5) about the evolution of life on our planet in the far future.

Warning, massive spoilers:

There are like 5 or 6 mass extinction events followed by a new civilization each time built by a different specie. At some points a raven civilization goes on the moon (they always had an innate tendency to go higher) and find an old rover, then it jumps to another civ. and the earth is totally smooth and people are living in holes in the ground (this might be another story from Baxter). Then it's some earth inner core creatures fungi-like. It ends with the sun expansion making life on earth impossible and a mars creature pondering all that.

Rings any bells ?