Wednesday, February 27, 2008

View from Earth 100 trillion years in the future


Truly stunning video, from the Big Bang to the end of cosmology.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-end-of-cosmology-video

Assuming the Earth is not consumed by the Sun during its Red Giant stage...
By 100 trillion years in the future, the Sun will have burned out long ago, and the Earth will have been ejected from the Solar system to wander as a rogue planet, alone in space. Due to the accelerating expansion of the universe, nearly all the galaxies recede from the Earth faster than the speed of light, and these galaxies are therefore no longer visible because their light cannot travel fast enough. At few of the nearest galaxies are still visible in the night sky in the illustration above, but they too will accelerate away, and the sky will become a black void for eternity.

Eventually, all of the matter making up the Earth will convert back to the energy from which it came, and all that will be left will be the void.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-night-sky-will-fade-to-black

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