No size restrictions and screw the limit.
Posted on 04/12/2026 10:48:55 AM PDT by Libloather
It’s the end of the world as we know it — a lot sooner than we think.
A team of researchers have drastically scaled back the going estimate of how long it will be until the universe ceases to exist.
Previously, scientists believed it would be 10¹¹⁰⁰ years until the very last objects in the cosmos would disappear forever — that’s a 1 followed by 1,100 zeroes, in layman’s terms.
But a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics by a trio of researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands posits the real figure as closer to 10⁷⁸ years, or a 1 followed by just 78 zeroes, Science Aim writes.
Make no mistake, 10⁷⁸ years is a long, long, long time. But the difference between 10⁷⁸ years and 10¹¹⁰⁰ years is so enormous that it’s unfathomable to the human mind.
At the heart of the researchers’ dramatic revision is Hawking radiation, a theory proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking in 1975 that black holes aren’t completely black but rather very slowly leaking particles.
Hawking explained the process in numerous books and talks over the years, wherein a pair of temporary particles form at the edge of black holes and rather than merging, one escapes while the other is sucked into the cosmic abyss.
The surviving particle is then imbued with energy from the black hole itself.
Hawking theorized that over “extraordinarily long timescales,” black holes lose mass and eventually evaporate entirely, contradicting Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, which states that black holes can only grow larger.
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Hawking also thought the universe created itself.
I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
Bkmk
Now I’m worried.
Good!
The Hubble Space Telescope can see to a certain distance out in the Cosmos. The newer James Webb Space Telescope can see further. Many of the Webb most distant discoveries are things that shouldn’t be there, according to the present-day “experts.” Real scientists are rethinking and retooling their theories.
What is beyond the limit of the Webb Space Telescope.
We shall “see.”
Something from nothing defies logic.
Something from nothing and your chicks for free......
Betcha he doesn’t think that now...
No size restrictions and screw the limit.
A little over 1000 years left.
Then a new heaven and a new earth.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
I read “4.78 years” and figured Greta Thonberg had turned to hard drugs.
“very slowly leaking particles”
Yes, a typical old age problem!
Yes
Women and minorities most affected.
WTF?? The universe will always exist, just in different forms.
“What is beyond the limit of the Webb Space Telescope.”
About 13.5 billion years so far.
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