• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    28 days ago

    stars will be farther apart in the sky and eventually as the universe expands, you won’t see anything except pitch black.

    I once went to a Wikipedia page with a title like “the far timeline of the universe” or something. Putting it poetically - I think it was that the stars go out on earth in ~100b years.

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    Ninja edit

    Timeline of the far future

    100–150 billion The Universe’s expansion causes all galaxies beyond the former Local Group to disappear beyond the cosmic light horizon, removing them from the observable universe.

    I guess Windows 1087 won’t allow you to reconnect to Local Group unless you have Windows 1087 Pro.

    • Sebrof [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      28 days ago

      The far future is truly Lovecraftian and hard to fathom. Eventually star formation will cease, most of the timespan of the universe will be the “dark era” where black holes slowly evaporate due to Hawking Radiation. Then there will only be light, and when there is only light then time itself ceases to exist as a meaningful construct. Space, too, perhaps. Then there is an alternative, even longer ending, if it’s possible for light itself to decay.

    • Parzivus [any]@hexbear.net
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      28 days ago

      Semi unrelated but I really love futuretimeline.net for stuff like this. In the shorter term they try to make predictions on a human scale but the extreme long term is all astronomical stuff since it’s the only thing that can be predicted millions of years in the future