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2^64 seconds is 584.9 billion years. I think it's pretty safe to kick the can nearly 600 billion years down the road.
by lpghatguy 5y ago
2^64 seconds is 584.9 billion years. I think it's pretty safe to kick the can nearly 600 billion years down the road.
- drran 5y ago2^63 is just 292 billion years. Beware.
- mlyle 5y ago~1/4th to 1/40th the length of time where star formation will still be possible. Woefully insufficient.
- masklinn 5y agoIt's signed so only 2^63-1s, or 292 billion years. 'bout the same as tomorrow really, better do nothing, for in the end all is dust.
- jandrese 5y agoIn retrospect we should have made it unsigned, but set the epoch at the Big Bang.
- mjevans 5y agoRuler of great size, less useful when measured aspects are a pile of disconnected threads rather than a canvas that is mostly shared and mostly distorted the same way.