The last stars will burn out in 120 trillion years

We think. We still haven't solved things like the dark matter/energy problem. The answer to that alone could drastically change what we estimate will happen in the distant future.

This is the main reason why, if you come across a genie in a lamp, you should probably not wish for immortality. You're gonna be hellafuckin bored for a loooooooong time.

Also see Dyson's Eternal Intelligence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%27s_eternal_intelligence

Basically, if you assume it's possible to upload our intelligence to a computer and run it, then you can keep the energy going to run it for a very, very long time. Well past the heat death of the rest of the universe. It depends on running things in an on and off state to conserve energy for trillions of years. Subjectively, the people in there wouldn't notice that and would simply see their active lifespans go for trillions of years. It's not clear what the limit would actually be.

It's something like Zeno's Paradox. You cut things in half each cycle, but never quite get to zero.

Tangentially related great sci-fi short story: “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

Thus began the Age of Fire. But soon the flames will fade and only Dark will remain.

We're doing a pretty bang up job of making that one second as stupid and painful as possible.

Does thinking about the long dark make anyone else feel like they are going to vomit?

Want to live forever? Tough. Cos even if you could stop your body from growing old and dying, the planet is going to get too warm and nothing will be able to live on it. Then the sun will expand and destroy the planet. But even if you could leave the planet, theres no where close by to get too that wont have the same problems later on. But even if you could get to another solar system, same thing happens again. But then eventually the universe runs out of hydrogen and its fucked. Or the universe gets spread too thin, and its fucked. Or some fucking quantum field takes a shit, and creates a bubble of true vacuum that expands at the speed of light and everything's fucked.

Im fucked, youre fucked, the earth is fucked, the solar system is fucked, the galaxy is fucked, the local cluster is fucked, its all just fucked. One way or another. At some point nothing exists except an endless absence of anything. Not even nothing will exist...

And people say there are no good arguments for weekly drug fuelled sex orgies...

coulda said trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion and saved us a little time

That's neat, stars are just the sparks after the big bang, and "soon" that energy will be gone. Even with all the bad shit happening, it makes me happy to be alive in this beautifully short window of time in the universe, even if our little dust speck circling a spark is a bit fucked up sometimes

Honestly, this factoid is the closest thing to a real Total Perspective Vortex that I’ve ever felt.

What happens after the 10^106 years of black holes?

Wont there also be balls of iron-56 just chilling?

I think the passing of time, as in waiting, is an experience of the mind. Without a waiting mind, the length of time is just another number out there, like the distance between the edges of the universe. If after the dark finale of this universe there exists another event that spawns a conscious mind, there is no actual waiting happening between this universe bright, starry second and the next one.

We live in but a bright second, yet are determined to fill it with darkness unending.

Anthropic Principle moment

I just had a moment of what is everything

I don't know how to explain it but from nothing to something to nothing again but no why

Like living in a slow motion explosion on a spec of dust