/sci/ - Science & Math

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this is also a political question. the future of the universe depends not just on what is physically possible but also on what PEOPLE decide to do. forecasting human behavior runs up against a 2-year limit into the future, after which predictions break down in accuracy. therefore anybody pretending to know what is going to happen millions of years from now is delusionally overconfident. our knowledge of the universe tends to improve over time, so in a few decades some findings could fundamentally alter even our physical predictions of how things might play ou. another few hundred years later our view might be drastically different again in light of new evidence/theories/etc. this characteristic of scientific progress renders this thread science-fictional. we don't know what is going to happen 70 quadrillion years from now, just as we don't know what is going to happen 70 years from now.