I mean when you make it as arbitrary as possible. The universe is terminally unstable and will be completely destroyed. Bit of a nonsensical headline without timelines.
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The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death.
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“Newton’s envisioned instability is real after all,” the team. “He was mistaken only about the perpetrator.”
The news isn’t that the solar system will eventually collapse (the concept of entropy isn’t new) but that the mass loss is not predictable and smooth and the impact of the irregular mass loss fucks with their orbit:
The recently measured white dwarf recoil demands asymmetric mass loss that is most readily attributed to discrete, independently directed ejections that impulsively perturb stellar motion.
People are acting like it’s not a problem, but if we have just one more downgrade of that magnitude, we’ll be in big trouble
Yeah, at that magnitude loss one more and we’d only have tens of millions of years left.
does that mean I can quit my job and go on a hedonistic rampage?
I think everyone would be understanding about this today, even.
You’re looking at 3 further drops of that magnitude for it to have any meaningful impact on anyone alive today. But if we do have 3 then yes, it’s absolutely time to go apeshit.
Getting awful close to cosmic margins of error there
is that going to take longer than 30 years?
Nope. One more downgrade like that and the collapse of the solar system will be 88 billion years in the past. It’ll collapse before it even formed, and none of this mess will have happened in the first place. Come to think of it, that doesn’t sound so bad. Since it precedes the big bang, that might help with damage limitation.
I can get behind Accelerationism if it means we cause an integer overflow
Bit of a nonsensical headline if you refuse to read the article smh by head
If an article’s title doesn’t make sense until after you read the article, then the title is meant to ensnare rather than inform. Aka click bait.
Finally some good news
No way! The Universe will one day not exist anymore? That’s sick bro, you should tell some astrophysicists, they’d be shocked!
Our sun is expected to become a red giant in 5 billion years, so that should help.
It’s like my doctors say about various chronic conditions I have: “Don’t worry, something else will get you before this becomes a major problem.”
entropy, baby.
Still a few billion years? We’ll turn it into a junkyard way before then.
The Buddhist belief that nothing lasts forever has gained even more supporting evidence.
But all my stuff is there!
What about your wife and kid? (TFS reference)
Humanity is more terminally unstable, so we win!
Whoever wins, we lose.
Now we compete to rank which humans are most unstable!
I feel like I’m going up the ranks quickly.
This is how you end up with a new Hitler
I think it might already have happened
Humans are terminally unstable and will die within an average of 73 years. More at 11.
Finally some good news.
A few billion years you say? Maybe about 5 Billion?
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Finally some good news.
Where are those Accelerationists when you need them?
Attaching rocket thrusters to small moons, probably.
Promise?
