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There is no reason to believe that the universe has a meaningful end, but it appears to have had some kind of origin less than 15 blya. Even if you posit proton
by QAPereo 9y ago
There is no reason to believe that the universe has a meaningful end, but it appears to have had some kind of origin less than 15 blya. Even if you posit proton decay and use heat death as and endpoint, you’re still talking about many more orders of magnitude of “future” than “past” and... well... what else do we mean when we say young?
- bpd1069 9y agoIf you use the Stelliferous Era [From 10^6 (1 million) years to 10^14 (100 trillion) years after the Big Bang. --wikipedia] as a meaningful period we are still at the very beginning, less than 0.0138% through.
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