Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

So the Universe is dying

Options
  • 19-08-2015 3:39am
    #1
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭


    A study of more than 200,000 galaxies shows the universe is producing half as much energy as it did two billion years ago, slowly dying in a long, drawn-out decline, astronomers say.

    An international team of researchers used several of the world's most powerful telescopes to study the huge number of galaxies at wavelengths from infrared to far ultraviolet to measure how much energy they were putting out.

    What they found agreed with previous calculations that the universe's light in these wavelengths is slowly going out.

    "Newer galaxies are simply putting out less energy than galaxies did in the past," says astronomer Mehmet Alpasian, with NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

    OK, it's gonna take trillions of years but this is fierce depressing.
    from 2.25 billion years ago to 75 billion years ago, the energy output of the universe apparently fell by about 40 percent.

    :(


    http://www.techtimes.com/articles/75601/20150810/help-the-universe-is-dying-shocking-study-reveals-universe-is-preparing-for-an-eternal-doze.htm


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,300 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Time the universe got moving on that bucket list...

    :(


  • Options
    #3
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    endacl wrote: »

    :(

    :(


  • Options
    #4
    The Golden Miller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,320 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    Aload of nonsense


  • Options
    #5
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    The Golden Miller wrote: »
    Aload of nonsense

    I was just reading about this work "they" are doing on replacing harddrives with DNA Drives
    On hard drives, we use zeros and ones to represent data. DNA, meanwhile, uses four chemical bases (A,T, C and G), strung together like rungs on a sugar-phosphate ladder. It’s got four letters instead of two numbers, but both systems can store endlessly complex permutations of information.

    They are looking at putting 300,000 Terabytes in an ounce of DNA and it'll stay error free for millions of years.

    Sure what's the point now...:(


  • Options
    #6
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    The Universe started with the Big Bang, so just like we have passed the longest day of the year and so are heading into winter, the Universe is heading towards the Big Crunch. And then the whole thing starts again.

    Not that depressing really.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Second Toughest in_the Freshers
    Site Banned Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Second Toughest in_the Freshers


    oh shure, we're all dying, aren't we, really...


  • Options
    #8
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Second Toughest in_the Freshers wrote: »
    oh shure, we're all dying, aren't we, really...



Advertisement