A Snapshot of the Universe 3 Trillion Years From Now

ultracool wrote with a link to a Science Daily article that requires that you think long term. Really long term. Case Western Reserve University physicists are theorizing that trillions of years from now the universe will become 'static'. Essentially, the information that we use to gauge our Galaxy's position in the universe will have moved beyond the 'visible horizon. "What remains will be 'an island universe' made from the Milky Way and its nearby galactic Local Group neighbors in an overwhelmingly dark void ... The researchers followed up that discussion with one tracking early elements like helium and deuterium produced in the Big Bang. They predict systems that allow us to detect primordial deuterium will be dispersed throughout the universe to become undetectable, while helium in concentrations of approximately 25 percent at the Big Bang will become indiscernible as stars will produce far more helium in the course of their lives to cloud the origins of the early universe."

Comments

Re:big crunch?

[Jugalator]

At this point, there seem to be more followers of the Big Rip than a Big Crunch, since the days when scientists detected indication of dark energy and that the universe is not just expanding, but accelerating.

Re:We Are Gods

[nido]

Because no one ever prayed up a better microchip.

Exactly. Better inventions come from acting on information received in dreams, like Elias Howe & his sewing machine. (he'd worked for years trying to get a 'sewing machine' to work, without any luck. One night he fell asleep at his desk and dreamed of being threatened by savages with spears. The spears had a hole at the tip - when Elias awoke, he realized that he needed to move the hole in his sewing machine needle from the middle to the tip...)