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LIFE LENGTH

the next 100 000 000 000 years (the cycle time of the galaxy)

 

 

4th january 2009

 

these time scales take a bit of getting used to don't they

it's not until a being is 99 999 999 999 years old that it becomes appallingly small

there's a few lifetimes worth in there

each one more awesome than the last and then the next one beckoning, forever beckoning

 

                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4th january 2009  17th august 2010

 

the hydrogen gas that is the necessary ingredient for making stars like our sun will have been used up or become too dispersed to make any more suns

it is known to science that long after the last of the stars like ours in the milky way

( isn't that a great name)

have become depleted there will be slow burning stars that will take 10 000 000 000 000 years to run their course

after that it will be black holes to harness for their energy

( and you think nuclear energy is dangerous! )

but now we're entering love length territory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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