MF_Kitten
Set up us the bomb
There is a theory that the expansion of the universe will actually end up reversing, and everything will start to come back in again. Don't know exactly how and why that would work, but I remember reading it.
there are two ideas of how the universe will end, based on whether the universe is slowing down or speeding up. if it´s slowing down, then it´ll come to a halt eventually, and reverse as you say, ending up with everything being smashed to fuck in the end. if it´s speeding up, then it´ll end up pulling everything so far apart that everything cools down and freezes, and light doesn´t reach us anymore, and everything is just a desolate expanding vastness of cold emptyness.
they´ve been studying this closely, and have found out that the universe is speeding up, and so the "big chill" is how it will end. even though it´s not really an end, it´s just the death of it´s contents in a way.
I hope that your surprise at our lasting that long wouldn't be the usual Chicken Little we'llkillourselveswithnukesandbabysealclubbingandcapitalismohnoes nonsense... if so, you have a few more numbers to crunch before trying to figure out why we won't last long enough to see an empty sky above us.
Jeff
hahah, of course not
for starters, we´re fucked without the sun. there are many other things factored in as well that will fuck us over on the way to that point in time.
i´m no hippie, dude