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So Hawking radiation moves the estimate from the previous 10^1100 to 10^78 years. That's a pretty drastic change, but naturally, not exactly something to go and
by Etheryte 1y ago
So Hawking radiation moves the estimate from the previous 10^1100 to 10^78 years. That's a pretty drastic change, but naturally, not exactly something to go and worry about. Most of us would be lucky to make it to 10^2, so there's still some way to go.
- busyant 1y agoget your affairs in order.
- coolcase 1y agoAnother 10^3 would be good for humanity
- lordfrito 1y agoThe exponent going 1100 to 78 is pretty large error... huge 93% reduction... hopefully they have high confidence in the new value, otherwise humanity might be looking at 1 more big problem this century.
- immibis 1y agoIt's actually a 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% reduction and yes that is the correct number of 9's.
- stirlo 1y agoYep the difference between 10^78 and 10^1100 is approximately 10^1100…