The Last Star in the Universe – Red Dwarfs Explained
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3. mosfet23 commented 8 years ago
Maybe we're already a collective of post-humans running in a computer matrix powered by a red dwarf. And life on Earth is but a short 'retro' vacation where we're allowed to forget our real selves (a slice of processing in a great main-frame) for around 80 years. Once that 'life' on Earth is complete, we get to again rejoin the many iterations of ourselves, to share the time spent vacationing on the little blue planet that was authentically crafted in real space™ far away from other alien life so as to not break the illusion of solitude.
//My explanation for the Fermi Paradox
//My explanation for the Fermi Paradox
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5. chance commented 8 years ago
Is this narrator God? How does he know the stars will all die out? Because science? If there is matter aftermath from a super nova it will create a nebula, doesn't matter clump together via gravity? Wouldn't that birth new stars? What about the theory that black holes create new universes... this guy seems to have it all figured out. Not to mention if we can travel away from a star then WE DONT NEED STARS TO SURVIVE!
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6. Urmensch commented 8 years ago
#5 From the evidence, our Universe is a closed system. No energy is being injected into it. Therefore the second law of thermodynamics applies.
Entropy will increase, with the number of new stars being created slowing relative to the old stars dying, until eventually all the stars will die out.
As to black holes creating new universes, that is possibly true. That would not give a new lease of life to this universe. It would be the beginning of a new different universe.
Who knows, if we survive long enough and our knowledge increases we might find a way to escape our dying universe into a new universe, provided we find one that has physical constants that allow us to exist. It is possible that matter would be different. What if there is no such thing as oxygen in the new universe?
As to not needing stars to survive. All the complex forms on Earth only exist because the Sun is bathing us in highly ordered energy, which plants use to grow, which plants are eaten by animals, etc.
We have never travelled away from a star, only hopped from one body orbiting a star to another. I don't know where you got that idea.
Entropy will increase, with the number of new stars being created slowing relative to the old stars dying, until eventually all the stars will die out.
As to black holes creating new universes, that is possibly true. That would not give a new lease of life to this universe. It would be the beginning of a new different universe.
Who knows, if we survive long enough and our knowledge increases we might find a way to escape our dying universe into a new universe, provided we find one that has physical constants that allow us to exist. It is possible that matter would be different. What if there is no such thing as oxygen in the new universe?
As to not needing stars to survive. All the complex forms on Earth only exist because the Sun is bathing us in highly ordered energy, which plants use to grow, which plants are eaten by animals, etc.
We have never travelled away from a star, only hopped from one body orbiting a star to another. I don't know where you got that idea.
+7 1. kirkelicious commented 8 years ago
A billion years sounds like an infinity, but the fact that the great story of multi-cellular life on earth is beyond his half way mark already, strikes me as a little bit depressing.