4 ms·
A human blink takes about 0.1s. And spends roughly 75 years alive. Blink/s/min/hr/day/years= 0.1/60/60/24/365/75 = ~4*e-11 ratio of blinks to years alive Age
by jmac01 3y ago
A human blink takes about 0.1s.
And spends roughly 75 years alive.
Blink/s/min/hr/day/years=
0.1/60/60/24/365/75 = ~4*e-11
ratio of blinks to years alive
Age of universe is 14Byears
14,000,000,000 * 4*e-11 = 0.59 years.
A cosmic blink is about 7months
- heavenlyblue 3y agoThanks that's actually an amazing perspective. Universe, after all - isn't that old if you think about it.
- mongol 3y agoEspecially not in relation to how old it is expected to become
- slashdev 3y agoThat’s one possibility for the Fermi paradox. We might just be the first technological civilization in our neighborhood. A trillion years from now this place might be packed with them (red dwarf stars, the most common type of star live about two trillion years, unlike our hotter, larger star.)
- Maursault 3y ago> Age of universe is 14Byears It's age now. What will its age be when it is the relative equivalent of a 75yo human? A cosmic blink will be far longer than 7 months.
- disconcision 3y agoi don't think there really is such a relative equivalency. the universe according to best current understanding doesn't have anything which resembles human death to demarcate a lifetime. you could say 'heat death' but i dont think thats a strong comparison because, very much unlike human death, its a state which is approached asymptotically; the universe at heat death will look very much like the universe half way to, or even a millionth of the way to
- arp242 3y agoI suppose the closest would be the point at which multicellular/intelligent life becomes impossible, or perhaps when all life becomes impossible. Stellar formation will end in about 100 trillion years, so that seems a good point.