When and where will it all end?
By tarachand
@tarachand (3895)
India
November 15, 2006 6:16am CST
I know that the Sun will probably go nova in about 4.5 billion years, the cosmos may last another 100 or so billion years after the last bit of energy has run down and entropy has increased to infifnity. What will happen to the human race if we can survive a self inflicted nuclear armegeddon, a nuclear holocast?
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@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
1 Dec 06
I dont think you really want to know that. Because if you did thats all you would consume yourself and it would take your whole life away just like we dont know when we are dying. well most of us.
@Thomas73 (1467)
• Switzerland
6 Jan 07
To be honest, I don't think that the human species will see the end of the Sun, let alone the end of the universe. By then, it will have gone extinct either by its own stupidity and propension to self-destruction, or it will have branched and evolved into something else.
Maybe you can start a thread asking what people think about the future of human evolution? ;)
@tarachand (3895)
• India
6 Jan 07
I agree partly with you. If you recall my post - Ponderings, I have mentioned in the begining that human brain size is genrally increasing, so we can expect an increase in intelligence with time. As far as the self destruct part goes, I am not very sure that it will occour on a magnitude that was feared when the cold war was on.
The biggest fear would be nuclear contamination from the middle east and Muslim terrorists, but could be localized, because of the the limit in nuclear capabilities in number, quality and type of devices available. More worrisome is the dirty radioactive devices that could end up modifying human genes unimaginably.
Thanks for your respones and suggestions/s.
@ghost_07 (23)
• India
27 Nov 06
We won't see the end coming.. Some scientists have postulated that the Universe may already have strated to contract [the BIG CRUNCH]. But because we are trapped in the vicinity of a Super Massive BlackHole, we won't & probably never will "see" the end coming.. Although it is only a small consolation, enjoy life while we still possibly can...
@tarachand (3895)
• India
1 Dec 06
Thanks for the info! We will not be there, neither will the sun be there, what happens when entropy reaches a point when there is no more energy left, or will the big crunch hapen before everything in the cosmos has run down?
