If you have any interest in the origins of the universe, here’s a short video you will want to see. It describes and summarizes an article in the most recent Scientific American, about what the authors are calling the “end of cosmology.” An amazing thought: that, in the distant future, the evidence for the beginnings of the universe that astronomy discovered (fairly recently) will be obliterated by the very nature of our changing (rapidly expanding) universe. The evidence can be seen, now; but in the future, there will be nothing that can be seen or measured that would reveal how the whole thing is thought to have begun, 15 billion years ago…
Will there be sentient beings interested in their origins, then (humans and our descendents may well be extinct, and earth will be gone)? How will they go about investigating their (our) universe? What ideas will they come up with, what stories will they tell, I wonder?
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