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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Farthest Future Events In The Broadest Strokes








While the predictions of the future can never be certain, present scientific understanding in various fields has allowed a projected course for the farthest events to be sketched out, if only in the broadest strokes. These fields include cosmology and astrophysics, which has revealed how planets and stars form, interact and die; particle physics, which has revealed how matter behaves at the smallest scales; biology, which predicts how life will evolve over time, and plate tectonics, which shows how continents shift over millennia. But here is the best minds' ambitious set of scientific predictions yet- from what could happen in one thousand years time to one hundred quintillion years (that is 100,000,000,000,000,000,000)

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