End of the Universe

>>8052663

the universe is eternal.

>>8052663
It will die when you die.

>>8052663
well it could instantaneously disappear as far as we know.

>>8052663
Depends on the curvature of the universe and what exactly dark matter is. Look up the Friedman equations and read up on them that should tell you everything you want to know.

>>8052663
The current vacuum is a false vacuum, and at some point some region of space will quantum tunnel into a lower vacuum which will then propagate out at the speed of light, fundamentally altering all of physics as all current particles instantly decay into particles that have never existed before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Existential_threat

>>8052663
Anyone who tells you they have the definitive answer have drank the populist's koolaid. Simply too many unknowns still out there.

The best we can hope for is a big crunch.

ok op first of all you are a faggot

and second anything that comes from NASA is bullshit. Space does not exist.

>>8052676

Expands. Contracts. Expands again?

>>8052663
When God creates the New Heaven and the New Earth.

>>8053435
this one freaks me out the most. but fortunately there's not enough definitive proof that we are in a false vacuum. r-right?

>>8053477
We would never be able to know, and we can never rule it out. The instant it happens, we're gone. It is a perpetual uncertainty that we can never test. Even if we tested it by trying to create a lower vacuum state, as soon as it is created, it would unstoppably propagate out at the speed of light disintegrating everything.

>>8053459
Go on..

>>8052663
>the Big Rip
is the correct answer

As in the atoms will split

Maybe in the future, im talking millennia, we'll have technology that will circumvent all of these and we'll live on forever. Is there any reason to doubt that this could happen at some point?

>>8052663
With a bang.


Oh wait.

>>8055789
Technically? http://go.nature.com/oIpEsi

No.