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> warp speed travel is now a lot more likely in a much shorter timespan than we previously thought. That's some cold comfort, since all timespans are much shor
by wmeredith 6y ago
> warp speed travel is now a lot more likely in a much shorter timespan than we previously thought.
That's some cold comfort, since all timespans are much shorter than "never".
- rbanffy 6y agoWhen the whole universe is in a stable thermal equilibrium after the last proton decays, what's the meaning of time and space anyway?
- slowmovintarget 6y agoProtons don't decay (as far as we can tell), they get ripped apart in black holes which evaporate into photons, mostly. All that's left are photons, moving at the speed of light, experiencing no time, and never meeting each other as the universe expands away faster than they move. "It's hard to bore a photon." -- Roger Penrose
- rbanffy 6y agoThey may decay, but when the lower bound for their half-life is more than 10^36 years, it'll certainly be very hard to observe it.