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cm0002@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought

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Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought

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cm0002@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of three Dutch scientists on the so-called Hawking radiation. They calculate that the last stellar remnants take about 1078 years to perish. That is much shorter than the previously postulated 101100 years.
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      Not me, I was only able to get 1033 year amortization on mine.

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          It’ll probably be extended when we get 128 bit processors

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    any chance we could move that to next week?

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          You don’t know that!

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        Please. You have at least 10.1^78 hours unplayed in your Steam account.

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            Kinda in the same boat as you. Such a strange game. I’m loving it though.

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      Next week is inconvenient for me as my existential dread has flared up again. Can we try tomorrow?

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    Well, it sure feels like forever.

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    Because the researchers were at it anyway, they also calculated how long it takes for the moon and a human to evaporate via Hawking-like radiation. That’s 10^90 years.

    Aw shit, there goes my retirement plans

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      In all seriousness I wonder if GCal could schedule something this far in the future…

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        It requires 10^3 clicks

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    For comparison, if you had a deck of 52 playing cards and shuffled them into a random order, then checked a year later to see if they were in the same order as when you opened the box, reshuffled if they weren’t, and repeated another year later, and so on…

    We can use the cumulative distribution function of the geometric distribution 1 - (1 - p)k, where p is the per-trial probability and k is the number of trials, to find the chance that you’ll find at least one correctly sorted deck from now until the time in this paper. There’s a… Well, SageMath failed because of the exponent, but Wolfram Alpha tells me, uhhhhh…

    Wolfram Alpha screenshot showing the CDF equation with parameters plugged in

    Yeaaaaaaaaah, we’re not going anywhere any time soon.

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