11 billion years left

[joetronic]

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/748.html

Guess its time to start ranking up those credit cards :p . Only 11 billion years left. :eek:

[Thomas Veil]

A new study has reveled that the universe will last for 26 billion years, 15 years more than what was predicted before.Well thank goodness. I had plans. http://users.adelphia.net/~tjveil/images/yeahright.gif

[miloblithe]

Reminds me of the Matt Groenig joke about, when in doubt as to whether or not you should do something, consider how long you are going to be dead.

26 billion years, eh?

[plinden]

Funny, it's a four month old article and they still haven't fixed the first sentence.

A new study has reveled that the universe will last for 26 billion years, 15 years more than what was predicted before.

So they use to think it would last 25,999,999,985 years? It seems cosmologists have nailed down the accuracy of their measurements to an astonishing degree.

[VincentVega]

I wonder if Microsoft will have finished Longhorn by then?

[themadchemist]

Wow, what a horribly written article! :eek:

[clayj]

I don't know where these folks got their material, but every physics paper I've read recently indicates that the Big Crunch is NEVER going to happen... there's simply not enough mass in the Universe for gravitational contraction to overcome the current acceleration (fueled by dark energy?) of the galaxies away from each other.

In other words, we ain't heading for a Big Crunch in billions of years... we're heading for a Big Cold in billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of years. (Maybe longer.) The Universe is doomed to end as a cold graveyard of evaporating black holes, and the end of everything will come when the last proton finally decays into its constituent quarks.

[Hemingray]

Wow, what a horribly written article! :eek:

Yeah, no kidding! "reveled"? "15 years"? Then, to top if off, they end the sentence in a preposition. Maybe they can spend some of those 15 extra years advertising for an editor. :p

[mcadam]

Perhaps Mac's marcet share will have risen to 6.43 % by then...

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[dotdotdot]

I wonder if Microsoft will have finished Longhorn by then?

Award - you get the first computer comment in this thread!

No, seriously... Longhorn will be finished... and so will Microsoft!

[Platform]

I don't know where these folks got their material, but every physics paper I've read recently indicates that the Big Crunch is NEVER going to happen... there's simply not enough mass in the Universe for gravitational contraction to overcome the current acceleration (fueled by dark energy?) of the galaxies away from each other.

In other words, we ain't heading for a Big Crunch in billions of years... we're heading for a Big Cold in billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of years. (Maybe longer.) The Universe is doomed to end as a cold graveyard of evaporating black holes, and the end of everything will come when the last proton finally decays into its constituent quarks.

I agree, the universe is expanding faster and faster every day and it is flat, so wwe don't go in circles, meaning we can go on forever. There is not enough mass for it to be curved and not enough mass for it to stop expanding either.

[rainman::|:|]

Until they figure out what dark matter is and how it behaves and what it does, they have no idea what effect it has on crunch/expand. And considering how much of the universe seems to be made of the stuff, it could have a big effect. Also keep in mind the big bang has never been anything more than an academic debate because we just don't understand enough yet. I think most physicists would tell you to take all of this with a grain of salt as it is all based on a mere hypothesis.

[sushi]

I wonder if Microsoft will have finished Longhorn by then?
Stop that!

Here I sit eating breakfast and spitting up my milk.

Good one! :D

Sushi

[mad jew]

I think most physicists would tell you to take all of this with a grain of salt as it is all based on a mere hypothesis.

Having spent far too much time studying astro physics I can pretty safely say that a grain of salt is probably the most we could ever get from this article. There are soooo many variables that we don't know about yet. This is all based on theories remember, and theories aren't necessarily facts! ;)

[irmongoose]

This is all based on theories remember, and theories aren't necessarily facts! ;)

Oh, you're telling that to a bunch of MacRumor addicts? :D




irmongoose