Good. I have a big investment in a star and sometimes I worry about inflation.
Inflation is part of the problem here. It appears to be getting worse. Soon enough, inflation will make strangers of us all...
The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
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Re: The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
#12Wikipedia has a page on the Timeline of the far future[1]. It lists a ton of physical and cosmological things that are predicted to happen based on our current understanding of physics. A really fun read that always takes me down a rabbit's hole of phenomena wikipedia pages.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Re: The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
#13It is funny, I was just thinking about this myself, the fact that in a determinable amount of time, the observable universe, will be completely unable to sustain any type of life. Really puts things into perspective.
On this time-scale, mountains erode and continents shift in an eye-blink. The end of all is effectively an infinite time in the future - so have fun!
Re: The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
#14Until humans start making them.
The important part is to disassemble stars. They are burning all the hydrogen way too fast.
Re: The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
#15So the universe is just biding it’s time to die? This is it, no more creation, no more new platforms for biological miracles. Interesting, so while humans figure out how to navigate the universe, many planets/stars would simply die and we will not even know.
I mean the universe is so incredibly vast that even if we figure out how to travel at the speed of light, we'll only ever get to see a small fraction of it. I don't think we'll have to worry about running out of places to explore.
Re: The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
#16For anyone interested in this, I recommend the following book: The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch.
Re: The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
#17Whenever you see the word Universe in pop sci, you can just sub in Observable Universe.
Re: The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
#18It is funny, I was just thinking about this myself, the fact that in a determinable amount of time, the observable universe, will be completely unable to sustain any type of life. Really puts things into perspective.
Not just life, any sort of chemical reaction will also be impossible. Heat death.
Re: The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
#19This dramatic visualization of the timeline for the rest of the universe is well worth a watch to get a feel for what we believe the future of the universe to look like
[TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
However, when you get to the end (which is perhaps a little depressing!), I'd recommend learning a bit about what we think could come 'after' this period, where the universe has become so isotropic and homogenous no clocks or measuring systems of any kind can be developed so the universe loses any sense of size or energy – it's been proposed that this creates opportunity for a new universe to exist
[What Happens After the Universe Ends?]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2JOQ7z5L0
These are fields of study right on the edge of what's testable by science so it's more fun to think about than it is to have certainty (although Penrose has, debatably, claimed evidence for echos of previous universes visible in the CMB!).
Re: The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
#20Whenever you see the word Universe in pop sci, you can just sub in Observable Universe.
Sure, but scientists have fairly good reasons for assuming that the rest of the universe looks pretty much the same. They could be wrong, of course, but "could be wrong" is always an assumption with these kinds of things anyway.