• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    The last stars will burn out in 120 trillion years

    We think. We still haven’t solved things like the dark matter/energy problem. The answer to that alone could drastically change what we estimate will happen in the distant future.

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      Stuff only burns for so long. We might learn more about the geometry of space and that there is more out there at greater distances where maybe even other Big bangs are possible but there is a certain maximum amount of time that a star can exist.

      Over the time scales of the life of a proton the maximum variability in the amount of time a star can burn is a rounding error against the scale of numbers needed to express the amount of time it takes for hawking radiation to reduce black holes to ultra long wavelengths of infrared radiation.

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      We also haven’t tried every possible configuration of atoms to see if anything creates a portal to an infinite energy dimension or a perpetual motion machine or something we can use to make our own stars

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        Infinite energy is cheating. Same with travelling backwards in time.

        My intuition tells me the universe doesn’t allow cheaters.

        But then I’m just an evolved bag of water cells clinging onto a clump of rock so what the fuck do I know?

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          Time travel is allowed for under our current models. Or rather, time travel doesn’t affect most parts of the current models, so it’s not cheating.