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10,000 Years from now
The red supergiant star Antares will likely have exploded in a supernova. The explosion is expected to be easily visible in daylight.
100,000 Years from now
The proper motion of stars across the celestial sphere, which is the result of their movement through the Milky Way, renders many of the constellations unrecognizable.
100,000 Years from now
The hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris (one of the largest stars known) will likely have exploded in a hypernova.
500,000 Years from now
Earth will likely have been hit by an asteroid of roughly 1 km in diameter, assuming it cannot be averted.
1 million Years from now
Earth will likely have undergone a supervolcanic eruption large enough to erupt 3,200 km3 of magma, an event comparable to the Toba supereruption 75,000 years ago.
2 million Years from now
Estimated time required for coral reef ecosystems to physically rebuild and biologically recover from current human-caused ocean acidification.
100 million Years from now
Upper estimate for lifespan of the rings of Saturn in their current state.
230 million Years from now
Prediction of the orbits of the planets is impossible over greater time spans than this, due to the limitations of Lyapunov time.
(interesting read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_time)
240 million Years from now
From its present position, the Solar System completes one full orbit of the Galactic center. It will last a "galactic" year.
Another interesting timeline using galactic years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year
250 million Years from now
All the continents on Earth may fuse into a supercontinent. Three potential arrangements of this configuration have been dubbed Amasia, Novopangaea, and Pangaea Ultima.
500–600 million Years from now
Estimated time until a gamma ray burst, or massive, hyperenergetic supernova, occurs within 6,500 light-years of Earth; close enough for its rays to affect Earth's ozone layer and potentially trigger a mass extinction.
600 million Years from now
Tidal acceleration moves the Moon far enough from Earth that total solar eclipses are no longer possible.
600 million Years from now
The Sun's increasing luminosity begins to disrupt the carbonate–silicate cycle; higher luminosity increases weathering of surface rocks, which traps carbon dioxide in the ground as carbonate. As water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rocks harden, causing plate tectonics to slow and eventually stop.
Without volcanoes to recycle carbon into the Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide levels begin to fall.
By this time, carbon dioxide levels will fall to the point at which C3 photosynthesis is no longer possible. All plants that utilize C3 photosynthesis (~99 percent of present-day species) will die.
1 billion Years from now
The Sun's luminosity has increased by 10 percent, causing Earth's surface temperatures to reach an average of ~320 K (47 °C, 116 °F). The atmosphere will become a "moist greenhouse", resulting in a runaway evaporation of the oceans. Pockets of water may still be present at the poles, allowing abodes for simple life.
1.3 billion Years from now
Eukaryotic life dies out due to carbon dioxide starvation. Only prokaryotes remain.
2.8 billion Years from now
Earth's surface temperature, even at the poles, reaches an average of ~422 K (149 °C; 300 °F). At this point, life, now reduced to unicellular colonies in isolated, scattered micro environments such as high-altitude lakes or subsurface caves, will completely die out.
3.5–4.5 billion Years from now
The amount of water vapour in the lower atmosphere increases to 40%. This, combined with the luminosity of the Sun reaching roughly 35–40% more than its present-day value, will result in Earth's atmosphere heating up and the surface temperature skyrocketing to roughly 1,600 K (1,330 °C; 2,420 °F), hot enough to melt surface rock. This essentially will make the planet much like how Venus is today.
4 billion Years from now
Andromeda Galaxy will have collided with the Milky Way, which will thereafter merge to form a galaxy dubbed "Milkomeda". The planets of the Solar System are expected to be relatively unaffected by this collision.
5 billion Years from now
With the hydrogen supply exhausted at its core, the Sun leaves the main sequence and begins to evolve into a red giant.
7.59 billion Years from now
The Earth and Moon are very likely destroyed by falling into the Sun, just before the Sun reaches the tip of its red giant phase and its maximum radius of 256 times the present day value. Before the final collision, the Moon possibly spirals below Earth's Roche limit, breaking into a ring of debris, most of which falls to the Earth's surface.
7.9 billion Years from now
The Sun reaches the tip of the red-giant branch of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, achieving its maximum radius of 256 times the present day value. In the process, Mercury, Venus, very likely Earth, and possibly Mars are destroyed.
During these times, it is possible that Saturn's moon Titan could achieve surface temperatures necessary to support life.
8 billion Years from now
The Sun becomes a carbon-oxygen white dwarf with about 54.05 percent its present mass. At this point, if somehow the Earth survives, temperatures on the surface of the planet, as well as other remaining planets in the Solar System, will begin to start dropping rapidly, due to the white dwarf Sun emitting much less energy than it does today.
450 billion Years from now
Median point by which the ~47 galaxies of the Local Group will coalesce into a single large galaxy.
1 trillion Years from now
Low estimate for the time until star formation ends in galaxies as galaxies are depleted of the gas clouds they need to form stars.
The universe's expansion, assuming a constant dark energy density, multiplies the wavelength of the cosmic microwave background by 10^29, exceeding the scale of the cosmic light horizon and rendering its evidence of the Big Bang undetectable.
110–120 trillion Years from now
Time by which all stars in the universe will have exhausted their fuel (the longest-lived stars, low-mass red dwarfs, have lifespans of roughly 10–20 trillion years). After this point, the stellar-mass objects remaining are stellar remnants (white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes). Brown dwarfs also remain.
Collisions between brown dwarfs will create new red dwarfs on a marginal level: on average, about 100 stars will be shining in what was once the Milky Way. Collisions between stellar remnants will create occasional supernovae.
10^30 Years from now
Estimated time until stars that has not been ejected from galaxies (1% – 10%) fall into their galaxie's central supermassive black holes. By this point, with binary stars having fallen into each other, and planets into their stars, via emission of gravitational radiation, only solitary objects (stellar remnants, brown dwarfs, ejected planets, black holes) will remain in the universe.
3×10^43 Years from now
Estimated time for all nucleons in the observable universe to decay, if the proton half-life takes the largest possible value, 10^41 years. By this time, the Black Hole Era, in which black holes are the only remaining celestial objects, begins.
1.7×10^106 Years from now
Estimated time until a supermassive black hole with a mass of 20 trillion solar masses decays by the Hawking process. This marks the end of the Black Hole Era. Beyond this time, if protons do decay, the Universe enters the Dark Era, in which all physical objects have decayed to subatomic particles, gradually winding down to their final energy state in the "Heat Death of the Universe".
10^200 Years from now - The Photon Age
After all the black holes have evaporated (and after all the ordinary matter made of protons has disintegrated, if protons are unstable), the universe will be nearly empty. Photons, neutrinos, electrons, and positrons will fly from place to place, hardly ever encountering each other. Gravitationally, the universe will be dominated by dark matter, electrons, and positrons.
10^(10^50) Years from now
Estimated time for a Boltzmann brain to appear in the vacuum via a spontaneous entropy decrease.
Beyond - 10^(10^(10^(56))) Years from now
Estimated time for random quantum fluctuations and quantum tunnelling to generate a new Big Bang.
Congratulations ! You've reached the end of the universe, or maybe the beginning ?
HempmonkY
Dang I need to get my life straight before this happens
carn37lake
Whew. Well, going to works seems pointless now. I'm Going back to bed
thedoodiedoable
AnAccountToPostThis
Milkomeda.... Why not the Andromeda Way?
MrIllustrious
After reading this, it's crazy to think that the Dinosaurs lived for over 100 million years. They were truly the dominant species.
ArsanyOsama
#Dino master race
azrielmoha
Actually, they still lived today. Look outside
IHaveAListOfCringyPeople
Calling your mom a dinosaur is not nice
foxsound
and tomorrow it might rain! or not its hard to tell
moeslyarmlis
Visit Milliways! The restaurant at the end of the universe, where you can inspect the Dish of the Day or in other words; meet the meat.
GlitterInTheDarkNearTheTannhauserGate
Who knows, you might even bump into Marvin!
trev6800
You're assuming Trump doesn't just blow up the whole thing like in March of next year.
daveisamonster
Makes global warming seem like a futile fight
SublimeMacrocosmicMalevolence
I'd love to see predictions what has happened in the past made in similar style like this. Make it go full circle!
082734041910
It would relatively short considering his timeline is in the trillions of trillions and the universe is like 13 billion years old
SublimeMacrocosmicMalevolence
Good point, but maybe it would be more detailed with shorter gaps, since the past is probably easier to analyze
DannikPLS
Judging by these predictions seems like Mars was once Earth. Nevertheless it would be nice if there was a post about the history of Mars!
SublimeMacrocosmicMalevolence
Mars post would be interesting too, for sure! A new perspective is always nice, here's Milky Way seen from Mars
DannikPLS
Nicely done. +1
082734041910
Wait what? What do you mean Mars was once earth? No... Mars was Mars...
DannikPLS
What I mean is, when you imagine Mars and the above pictures showing what could happen to Earth, don't you find any similarities?
DannikPLS
Check 1 and 2.8 billion years from now how Earth could look like. Looks similar to the surface of Mars doesn't it?
HousePest
And the bits of ice still on mars.
Pundamentalist
sadfeels
dekket
We won't be around to name it, so how do YOU know what the space people will name the milky way/Andromeda mix, huh?!..
jayanf
Milky McMilkyFace
ActualCannibalShia
Hopefully they won't name it Milkomeda. That's just stupid
wadenelson1
567 years from now. Keith Richards run over by Maglev, recovers as a result of stupendous medical advances between now and then.
buddha1313
Man that went on forever!
BlinkAndImGone
Still, it will take me longer to find the right person on Tinder
Kirawadi
Reminds me of this: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140105-timeline-of-the-far-future We will have a Galactic empire in 50 000 000 years.
SetariM
Pretty sure we're going to wipe ourselves out before then, FO style
aCoolBreezeOnAHotSummerDay
Can human sustain our pace of development for another 1000yrs much less 10,000 or 100,000 more? Doesn't seem likely.
gambronus
No, but catastrophic events on that time scale aren't likely to kill all human life, just most of it
Cheomesh
Probably not
KyleBeach
It would really depend on any major breakthroughs in knowledge of dark matter. Last i heard the use of dark matter is the last limiting
KyleBeach
factor on the use of a legit version of a warp drive. Assuming that gets figured out, interstellar travel and colonization becomes possible
aCoolBreezeOnAHotSummerDay
That would be wonderful to see or witness.
KyleBeach
yeah the downside is getting enough. We're coming to the point of "holy shit we just made a couple dark matter molecules" when we need like
KyleBeach
tons of the stuff to work the warp engine.
McTestalot
Foundling108
My afternoon plans seem stupid now.
Attaroo
To be fair, they were kinda pointless in the first place. :D
obzervr
And here we are, still fighting over a god that we have never seen,
aCoolBreezeOnAHotSummerDay
Depressing & amazing at the same time. I hope that I can witness & then understand it all from Heaven. Would be a site to behold.
falafelisgood
Maybe watch it all on a giant TV borne by angels? And then rewind if you missed anything.
Npipes98
I have the same hope, just want to know everything that's out there
AlchemicKeyblader
Stop the universe, I want to get off!
OtisNice
Most people do so without the need of the universe stopping. I suggest trying a different technique.
AlchemicKeyblader
Instructions unclear; dick became Fermi paradox.
ellipticalorbit
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
Zechie
I want to get off MR BONES WILD RIDE!
flowseeker
This reminds me of The Last Question by Issac Asimov
MundoCani
I loved The End Of Eternity. Great book. Such imagination.
Cheomesh
"Let there be light."
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaron
does imgur have a spoiler tag yet?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaron
Thanks for sharing that!
racc
http://youtu.be/R3U30wSAV4Q
soggybottoms3
http://multivax.com/last_question.html
ellipticalorbit
God I just read that and it gave goosebumps, that was stunning
clintbacca
Just read it too. Great stuff. It's so hard to imagine true nothingness, and it's surreal to think that's where it's all eventually going.
maximusdelirious
It's still one of my favorite sci-fi shorts.
flowseeker
Right! It's my favorite short story by Asimov.
ellipticalorbit
I can't believe I didn't know "Asimov" before !
flowseeker
He's great. The Foundation series is a cornerstone (excuse the pun) of science fiction. He also wrote I, Robot.
SrirachaSaucey
What type of book is it? Always looking for a new read.
flowseeker
It's only about 10 pages. I don't want to spoil anything but it deals with the heat death of the universe. Somebody linked a pdf earlier.
SrirachaSaucey
Time to go on a hunt!
flowseeker
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf Here you go!
OdysseusLost
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racc
http://youtu.be/ojEq-tTjcc0
SquishyPsychicChicken
So at which point in time does Tool release a new album?
flowseeker
Apparently they settled their lawsuits last year and theyre touring again so hopefully soon.
tantricpooper
Just after this.
BobaFettBobaFettWhere
@incrediblybl4ck0beseman post and comment
MankHoody
Around the same time Half-Life 3 comes out.
DelusoryX
So your saying it's not the black hole era, it's the black Mesa era!
jeeper08jk
So.... Where's string theory come in? And that hologram thing? Do we die? Is energy really lost? Are we Boltzmann brains? Or brain?
YouDontKnowMeIDontKnowMe
I wonder if, or how many times, this has happened before.
Fenriswaffles
For all we know it has been happening always, and that you could have asked this exact question before in some unimaginably distant 'past'!
eraser820
Exactly. I remember being completely freaked out when I realized many worlds theory might actually play out serially instead of parallel...
Cranksta
Might help explain the Deja Vu phenomenon. Slight connections between worlds at different time periods.
ArsanyOsama
I'm freaking out right now.
DeltaDin
"Always" is a scary thought.
BudChiscuit
infinity you scary
UkrainianBukkake
Infinity is a hell of a thing
ArsanyOsama
a drug*
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
You can erase those last three words and it's still accurate.
PleaseDontRespondToMySarcasticCommentsWithASeriousReply
Swfr
this just scares me and fascinates me more
CarlosOfNightvale
I'm not even kidding this did actually put me into an existential crisis
ldragons
:/
PineappleSlam
[RELATION TO JOKE INTENSIFIES]
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
Sometimes I get this feeling that when I die, my soul will be free to wander the universe. It'll be cool for a few trillion years or so>
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
Cranksta
At least you'll have friends. P.S. I've seen shit and you're not far from wrong.
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
I've seen.... a lot.. myself. I'm fairly certain I'm spot-on
Cranksta
Yeah, it's the one thing I look forward to most when I actually die for good. The whole world at my fingertips. It's gonna be great.
jchansen
ASeriousReply
ZacEM
[Sheer joy at the nature of our existence intensifies]
PleaseDontRespondToMySarcasticCommentsWithASeriousReply
I think I like yours better
turbofang
So only 10^(10^(10^(56)))+13.8 billion years from now until I might get a second shot at this, eh? And now we play the waiting game.
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
If Nietzsche was right, it won't matter much. You'll live the exact same life with no direct memories of the infinite times before.
chubito33
I admire ur optimism, it strangely comforted me
soggybottoms3
http://multivax.com/last_question.html
ThisIsWhyIDontTrustPeople
You can use your forward time machine to get there faster and try to shoot hitler on your way past. (Try not to shoot Eleanor Roosevelt)
Counterfit
Although if you hit Franklin in the spine, nobody will notice
Voidjumper
Or you could play that other game with the exact same premise and a lot of waiting: No Man's Sky.
theonedudeoverthere
10^(10^(10^(56)))+13.8 billion years you say?
DrKriegersClone
The wheel of time turns, and ages come and pass.
juicebox03
well it was just like before you were born.
FierceFuturist
If time is infinite we'll all live again.
ellipticalorbit
You can't imagine how large this number is, you better be patient.
jiira
Sure you can, it's like an 10^44th of a googolduplex years. Goes in a jiffy!
KeatonTS
considering the concept of time no longer applies to a dead man, It could "feel" almost instant
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
Sometimes I get the feeling when I die my mind will be free to wander the universe until the next reboot. The first trillion or so years>
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
KeatonTS
SAME HERE!! I literally made a comment hoping that some part of our consciousness could drift through space to see these events
0rian
You forget that time is relevant to the observer.
turbofang
Meh, I've got all day. How long could it be?
williewilliewillie
You probably shouldn't quit your day job quite yet.
Datdudez
The good news is we'll all be dead for nearly all of the waiting period. It should just fly right by.
keyserv
Is it even possible to come up with a suitable analogy for that amount of time?
ellipticalorbit
Then divide 10^(10^(10^(56))) by 52!... It wouldn't change, not even a bit http://wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(10^(10^(10^(56))))/(52!) 2/2
TwistedTelepath
Holy shit. My brain hurts.
keyserv
That is mind-blowing.
clutchthepearls
I'm math retarded, how many zeros is it?
Wimpymind
more zeros than plank volumes in the observable universe.
Laiscythe
Too many to even comprehend. The inner exponent is 1 followed by 56 0's. That number itself is more than we can imagine.
ellipticalorbit
You are talking about 10^(10^(10^(56))) ? There are 10^(10^(56)) zeros in it (just remove the 10^) And that's still a big number
ellipticalorbit
Ok so first look at this analogy about 52! http://youtu.be/ObiqJzfyACM?t=858 1/2
Smead
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TakWriterOfWorlds
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Sublime1981
It's no time at all. I was dead for 14 billion years before I was alive. Didn't seem long at all.
ArsanyOsama
ikr it was like a walk in the park.
Fenriswaffles
Well comparatively, 14bn years is a tiny flash of existence compared to how long until QM fuckery rebooting the universe could be plausible.
koopaya
I won't sweat the wait for I'll be dead.
silveriohb
Well, it's a rough estimation of the weight of your mom
LompHoofd
SpeedPsyko
HA
lexasami
DrDoomRoom
So savage even satan say no more.
extralongusernamemadejustforthefakeinternetpoints
Oooooooooooooooooooooooo
ellipticalorbit
Imgur needs a comment hall of fame for burns like this.