Following my retirement, we have closed our company for new business.

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly, our email portal remains open and I would be delighted to hear from you and provide ongoing support or advice.

Richard Thomson

support@rta-instruments.com

Companies represented up to the end of December 2023. Please now contact them directly.

k-Space Associates, Inc.
Phone: +1 (734) 426-7977
requestinfo@k-space.com
https://www.k-space.com

STAIB INSTRUMENTS GmbH
Phone: +49 8761 76 24 0
sales@staibinstruments.com
https://www.staibinstruments.com/

Wednesday 13 October 2010

But why bother?

A recent paper (arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1009/1009.4698v1.pdf) addresses the issue of an infinitely expanding universe and that in such a scenario even the most unlikely events will eventually occur - and not only occur, but occur an infinite number of times. One solution to this problem, according to Bousso et al, is that time itself will eventually end. Then there would be a finite number of events that occur, with the improbable events occurring less often than the probable events. The physicists have attempted to calculate the probability of when time will end. In two of these scenarios, time has a 50% chance of ending within 3.7 billion years. In two other scenarios, time has a 50% chance of ending within 3.3 billion years.

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