Friday, February 24, 2017

"there will be a point, in the very far future, at which all galaxies will be so far apart that they will no longer be visible from one another"

Bldg:
Upon reaching that moment, it will no longer be possible to understand the universe’s history—or perhaps even that it had one—as all evidence of a broader cosmos outside of one’s own galaxy will have forever disappeared.

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There would be no reason to theorize that other galaxies had ever existed in the first place. The universe, in effect, will have disappeared over its own horizon, into a state of irreversible amnesia
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