Tens of billions of years from now, the universe will end...

[AC016]

..., but you will not know it, since it will come at you at the speed of light. One of the scientists even said not to worry about it. Therefore, it begs the question: what's the point of telling us??

Higgs Boson Particle May Spell Doom For the Universe - Yahoo! News

 

[Dave_W]

This kind of stuff is so cool. Cosmology is akin to modern day witchdoctors. When I hear the Navajo's version of creation and that we're all riding on the back of a turtle it's not that much harder to believe that the whole "Big Bang" theory. And the one thing you can count on is that everything we think today will be different tomorrow. When it comes to the cosmos we are like newborn infants who's eyes have just opened. Just a few years ago we had no proof there were planets outside our own solar system, now we've catalogued 1,000's of them. Within a lifetime I predict we'll have computer enhanced optical ability to actually see these planets and possibly the things living on them. What a blast that would be.

 

[Eye-level]

My wife is heavily involved in the Physics section at the University if Tulsa...I will ask her what she thinks about it tonight when she gets home...I have a feeling her answer is going to be something like well that's not the Higg's Bosun and anyways all good things must come to an end...lol

 

[M1A]

I can't remember where I heard this, but it does kind of put death into perspective:

"I was dead for billions of years before I was born, and it didn't bother me then. It won't bother me after I'm dead either." It's kind of a strange thought.

 

[Rick M]

This is why I upgrade often, you never know which camera will be your last .