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The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

How are they defining the end of the universe?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably very shortly after dinner has been served at that restaurant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think that was just a galaxy, not the whole universe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Hmm.... i sit corrected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

But what does the Lord think about this?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

The universe is believed to end just a few nanoseconds before a monkey finishes writing Hamlet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Heat death would be my assumption, so between about 10^100 and 10^106 years

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

We know such an infinitesimally small amount about what is actually happening in the universe that any claims to be capable of predicting it's end are patently absurd.