Hi, Kestrel.

--- Kestrel  wrote:


> > Not so.  Eventually, all matter in the universe will be so far
> apart
> > that everything will freeze and that'll be the end of it.  Alas,
> alack, brrrrr, *croak*.
> 
> If all parts are expanding at the same rate in all directions...
> but I seem
> to recall that isn't the case. I'm really unsure on that tho, so
> can't say
> if it helps the argument that some things will still be warm enough
> to live on or not.

The heat death is a postulated end to the universe and it derives
from the fact that there is an finite amount of hydrogen and the
universe will have to run out some day.  Eventually, the last star
will grow cold and the universe will grow dark.  Long before that
happens, however, it will already have been too dark to support life
for a long, long time.

> Regardless -- it's far enough in the future that we (personally)
> don't have to worry about it 

Well, yeah, but it bums me out anyway.

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