Comments on: The real end of the world http://boingboing.net/2012/12/24/the-real-end-of-the-world.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 26 May 2013 02:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: raincoaster http://boingboing.net/2012/12/24/the-real-end-of-the-world.html#comment-1615370 raincoaster Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202777#comment-1615370 Maggi, The scarriest is the Japanese ambassador to Switzerland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNngWA5c-kM&feature=related 4 Maggi, The scarriest is the Japanese ambassador to Switzerland.

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]]> By: Ken Williams http://boingboing.net/2012/12/24/the-real-end-of-the-world.html#comment-1615296 Ken Williams Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202777#comment-1615296 Well, it *is* the endtimes. Well, it *is* the endtimes.

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/12/24/the-real-end-of-the-world.html#comment-1615213 niktemadur Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202777#comment-1615213 The spookiest timeline of the far future I've seen, is easily <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future" rel="nofollow">this beauty</a> on Wikipedia, because it also considers the possibility that the proton does NOT decay, so that the time scales become truly insane.  Then it goes BEYOND that into the realm of hypotheticals, such as Boltzmann Brains and Poincaré Recurrences. The table is peppered with phrases such as this gem: <i>On this timescale all matter is liquid</i>. Wow. The spookiest timeline of the far future I’ve seen, is easily this beauty on Wikipedia, because it also considers the possibility that the proton does NOT decay, so that the time scales become truly insane.  Then it goes BEYOND that into the realm of hypotheticals, such as Boltzmann Brains and Poincaré Recurrences.

The table is peppered with phrases such as this gem: On this timescale all matter is liquid. Wow.

]]> By: Roger Strong http://boingboing.net/2012/12/24/the-real-end-of-the-world.html#comment-1615153 Roger Strong Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202777#comment-1615153 I only got 5 seconds into the video.  It shows the moon lit from in front and slightly to the right.  The Earth, in the foreground, is lit from behind and slightly to the left.  I could watch no further.  Sorry. I only got 5 seconds into the video.  It shows the moon lit from in front and slightly to the right.  The Earth, in the foreground, is lit from behind and slightly to the left.  I could watch no further.  Sorry.

]]> By: timquinn http://boingboing.net/2012/12/24/the-real-end-of-the-world.html#comment-1615116 timquinn Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202777#comment-1615116 The universe ends not with a bang but with a settling out of all difference.  The universe ends not with a bang but with a settling out of all difference. 

]]> By: Bloo http://boingboing.net/2012/12/24/the-real-end-of-the-world.html#comment-1615107 Bloo Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202777#comment-1615107 C'mon, you're a scientist... don't you mean "by the time that happens, it's statistically probable that you'll be dead"  ?   :-) C’mon, you’re a scientist… don’t you mean “by the time that happens, it’s statistically probable that you’ll be dead”  ?   :-)

]]> By: Jim Saul http://boingboing.net/2012/12/24/the-real-end-of-the-world.html#comment-1615088 Jim Saul Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=202777#comment-1615088 There's a bit from one of the many recent cosmology tv shows that I've been trying to place... perhaps someone recalls it. It's another longer discussion of the steps to the eventual heat death of the universe, with a set of stone stairs as the time metaphor, each step a vastly larger span of time than that before. The presenter/physicist (it may even be the same, Alok Jha but it's a longer clip) goes through same "black hole age" until Hawking radiation evaporates even those, but much more detailed. It's very poetic, and describes truly mind-blowing time scales, even in the context of normal cosmology. Then again, there's always the "Big Rip." There’s a bit from one of the many recent cosmology tv shows that I’ve been trying to place… perhaps someone recalls it. It’s another longer discussion of the steps to the eventual heat death of the universe, with a set of stone stairs as the time metaphor, each step a vastly larger span of time than that before.

The presenter/physicist (it may even be the same, Alok Jha but it’s a longer clip) goes through same “black hole age” until Hawking radiation evaporates even those, but much more detailed. It’s very poetic, and describes truly mind-blowing time scales, even in the context of normal cosmology.

Then again, there’s always the “Big Rip.”

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