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The Far Future of Our Solar System
An anonymous reader writes "Sure, the Universe is expanding, the galaxies are accelerating away from one another, and it's looking more and more like they'll never re-collapse. The timeline of the far future looks pretty grim on large scales. But what's to come of our Solar System: of the Earth, our Moon and our Sun? This tour of the far future of the Solar System, scaling the timescales to the Big Bang being '1 Universe year' ago, puts it all in perspective."
No way, the simulation has produced Justin Bieber and Microsoft 8, yet it's still running. If there is an OFF button, it is jammed.
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Of course, when the Milky Way and Andromeda do merge, Galactic taxes will likely go up and this could lead to the Trade Federation complaining and threatening a planetary embargo ... but this just conjecture.
Priest: "Universe from nothing, no laws of physics, sped up time"+ huge discrepancies. Creationism? No. Big Bang Theory
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space#What_space_is_the_universe_expanding_into.3F
It's kinda sorta expanding into itself . . .
If you smoke some weed, listen to an old "Yes" album from the 70's and do some whippets, you understand it all and it becomes really clear, but you forget again when the whippets wear off.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!