Am I just stupid? They reference this study then go into the origins of life on earth and completely ignore mentioning the study again. What the fuck is this article?
Ah, I see it now. What a surprise, absolutely nothing has changed besides what we think will happen when the sun collapses into a white dwarf.
Sensational clickbait trash.
Yeah wtf. I had the same experience as you. Shitty article on shitty site apparently.
Still a few billion years? We’ll turn it into a junkyard way before then.
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.”
No way! The Universe will one day not exist anymore? That’s sick bro, you should tell some astrophysicists, they’d be shocked!
entropy, baby.
Even if it was balanced wouldn’t the orbits of the planets eventually decay anyways?
Oh yeah, everything will succumb to entropy one way or another
The Buddhist belief that nothing lasts forever has gained even more supporting evidence.
Finally some good news
But all my stuff is there!
What about your wife and kid? (TFS reference)
We’re all going to die!
There goes my dream of living 100 billion years…
Not under this sun at least
You know, I think you’re right to call out my pessimism. Perhaps I should look into being shot into being shot into outer space in a cryogenically sealed coffin so I can spend 100 billion years circulating the galaxy without worrying about such things.
Obviously though? Like that’s entropy, it’s fundamentally built in.
Where are those Accelerationists when you need them?
Attaching rocket thrusters to small moons, probably.
Promise?
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.
FTA:
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.
Fuck. We have a lot less time than we thought.
FTA:
“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.
Getting awful close to cosmic margins of error there
does that mean I can quit my job and go on a hedonistic rampage?
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.
I think everyone would be understanding about this today, even.
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.
