March 08, 2004

How is the universe going to end? An entertaining article all about the freezing/burning/infinite/finite/depressing/exciting end of the universe, and the eschatologists who contemplate it. "Eschatology — it's a great word. I had never heard of it until I discovered I was doing it."
posted by Blaise Bailey Finnegan 20 years ago
  • Scientists get all the lovely words. Selenography being another.
  • "Did Dyson really say that?" he exclaimed. "Good. Because I think protons probably do decay." Comic genius.
  • You rumbled me, Blaise... It's still a beautiful word (and a beautiful album, too)
  • Bees! The universe will end in bees! I'm not quite sure how (still working through the equations), but the math is solid up to that point.
  • It's either going to end with a bang or a whimper. The smart money is on the whimper.
  • It might not have to end at all - if there is one thing the human mind can't even begin to actually conceive of in any meaningful fashion is infinity. What if we do actually live in an infinite universe - infinite in size and infinite in time, too. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible Albert Einstein But maybe it isn't actually comprehensible after all.
  • sandspider! oh no! the end has begun!
  • I had no idea what a grammarian did, but now I are one.
  • I always thought the world was going to end the day we decide those chinese sons of a bitches are going down.
  • armaghetto - that was damn funny.