The end of infinity?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

No heat death for the Universe?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/19/dark-energy-mysterious-cosmic-force-weakening-universe-expansion⁶

[jeremyp]

Link is broken. Here is the correct one

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/19/dark-energy-mysterious-cosmic-force-weakening-universe-expansion

[Sebastian Toe]

Interesting.
As the planet will be dead in 4 billion years, in which direction it's travelling it's neither here nor there I suppose!

[Sriram]

https://www.sciencealert.com/dark-energy-may-not-exist-something-stranger-might-explain-the-universe

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There might not be a mysterious 'dark' force accelerating the expansion of the Universe after all. The truth could be much stranger – bubbles of space where time passes at drastically different rates.

The passage of time isn't as constant as our experience with it suggests. Areas of higher gravity experience a slower pace of time compared with areas where gravity is weaker, a fact that could have some pretty major implications on how we compare rates of cosmic expansion according to a recently developed model called timescape cosmology.

Discrepancies in how fast time passes in different regions of the Universe could add up to billions of years, giving some places more time to expand than others. When we look at distant objects through these time-warping bubbles, it could create the illusion that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.

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[SqueakyVoice]

Interesting.
As the planet will be dead in 4 billion years, in which direction it's travelling it's neither here nor there I suppose!

Yep. The sun will burn in 4-5 billions years. Then  in 20trillion years the expanding universe will freeze with entropy slowly evaporating.
Got to have a sense of perspective,  I suppose.

[Sebastian Toe]

Yep. The sun will burn in 4-5 billions years. Then  in 20trillion years the expanding universe will freeze with entropy slowly evaporating.
Got to have a sense of perspective,  I suppose.

I've always wondered what those who believe in eternal life would actually do for an infinite number of 200 trillion years?
Basking in their god's glory or whatever. I
I think I'd get bored after a couple of weeks doing the one thing!
Maybe that's an idea for a thread...

Just what would you do, for Eternity?

[SqueakyVoice]

I've always wondered what those who believe in eternal life would actually do for an infinite number of 200 trillion years?
Basking in their god's glory or whatever. I
I think I'd get bored after a couple of weeks doing the one thing!
Maybe that's an idea for a thread...

Just what would you do, for Eternity?

I think I'm in a similar  line;

Bowerick Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged was a being who became immortal after an accident with a few rubber bands, a liquid lunch, and a particle accelerator. After a period of total boredom, especially on Sunday afternoons, he decided to insult everyone in the entire universe in alphabetical order

(c) Douglas Adams

[Sebastian Toe]

I think I'm in a similar  line;(c) Douglas Adams

The thing about Eternity is that he could indeed do that.
Travelling to every inhabited planet in the universe, listing the names of everyone on each planet, sorting them in alphabetical order, visiting them one by one by walking to them, insulting them and moving on to the next person/alien. He could even start all over again each time he made an error.
...and still be home for (Eternal) tea!🫖