the cosmic apocalypse

Re: the cosmic apocalypse

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:49:24 +0000

Hi Keona,
You're correct, you shouldn't watch the Hysteria Channel. Those aren't documentaries, they are orgies of wild speculation. The Sun is going to expand, heat up, and become a red giant in about 5 billion years. It will remain a red giant for more billions before it blows off its outer layers and becomes a white dwarf. In about 10^17 years, that's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1 quintillion years), it will cool and become a black dwarf. I don't plan to be around in 100 years, let alone billions or quintillions of years, so I'm not too worried, we have some time.

Re: the cosmic apocalypse

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:57:33 +0000

Their claims might be as unlikely as gama ray bursts. They usually put fameless scientists - which have their own little research center in their underground garage and saying that "a part of NASA is studying the same stuff as I am studying here" - on the documentaries. They may sound scary to the TV viewers or - occasionally - laughable to other scientists.
That's the life on Histeria Channel.

Re: the cosmic apocalypse

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:59:35 +0000

keona'okelani, are you sure you hear this like this?

The sun does not have enough mass to explode.
Galaxies drifting apart has nothing to do with the sun.
Planets cannot explode.

What could happen is that Earth gets swallowed up by the growing sun in the year 4,500,000,000 from now.

Re: the cosmic apocalypse

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:41:13 +0000

Wow i did not know history channel was that bad… Sun Disaster only in billions of years…

Re: the cosmic apocalypse

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:13:54 +0000

Cosmic Apocalypse
Premiere Date: 04/29/2008
The Universe as we know it is condemned to death. Space, matter and even time will one day cease to exist and there's nothing we can do about it. Harsh realities are revealed about the future of our Universe; it may collapse and burn or it might be gripped by a galactic ice age. Either of these scenarios might be a long way off. However, our Universe could suddenly be destroyed by a "random quantum fluctuation", a bubble of destruction that can obliterate the entire cosmos in the blink of an eye. No matter how it ends, life in our Universe is doomed.

Well, the Sun's got about 4 or 5 billion years to go.
I've never heard of a theory of the solar system 'exploding' and it sounds extremely unlikely. These are events which, if they take place at all, will not occur many billions or trillions of years, so the idea that 'we are going to perish' is wide of the mark. As for the universe, one theory is that it will suffer 'heat death' where all energy is dissipated. This is expected to take approximately 10¹⁰⁰ years (that's a 1 followed by 100 zeroes).
There's no immediate need to cancel your holidays or cash in your insurance policies.

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Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:30:52 +0000

This sort of BS on your american Hysteric Channel is criminal and should be banned from the air. Fascism might not be so bad…

the cosmic apocalypse

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:23:56 +0000

ok so I know I'm crazy that I watched history channel but they aired this documentary called the cosmic apocalypse. It says that the sun will turn to ice and so instead of fire, we are going to perish because of ice age. And then the galaxy stuffs are drifting apart and every thing in the solar system will explode plus all of our planets. Please answer this questions. Thank
You :)