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RE: Why The Universe Is Destined To Be A Lonely Place

in #universe • 6 years ago

In about 5 billion years our Sun will expand and consume the Earth.

So maybe it's best not to think about it to much ☺

Will there be any humans alive in a million years to be lonely? I doubt it.

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     6 years ago 

    I was not talking about the million years time frame from a human perspective, but from any intelligent living being that would be alive at that point.

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      I doubt that there will be any intelligent life form to witness anything in the far flung future. As you mentioned.

      This means, after hundreds of millions of years, no light from a galaxy will be able to reach us or any other far off galaxy for that matter.

      So, any observer at that time, will see nothing beyond their own galaxy and would come to a conclusion that their galaxy is the only one in the entire universe and could end up coming to all the wrong conclusions about existence and how it all started.

      This assumes that someone will survive...no?

      If this galaxy that they witness is all they can observe then of course they will have to come to the wrong conclusion. They have no way of knowing of things beyond their comprehension.

      Interesting thought experiment though.

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       6 years ago 

      This assumes that someone will survive...no?

      Not necessarily. Hundreds of millions of years is a huge time frame. I think it is possible that civilisations can start and end within a certain period of time. So, we can assume that some civilisation could sprout up a hundred million years from now or at any point in the future.

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         6 years ago 

        Anything is possible for sure.

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