The Universe is Over the Hill.

[Markekohut]

Let's call it entropy and let it unfurl. 

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On Nov 20, 2012, at 11:24 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/11/19/the-stars-are-beginning-to-go-out/
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> The universe is apparently well past its prime in terms of making stars, and what new ones are being made now across the cosmos will never amount to more than a few percent on top of the numbers already come and gone.
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> [...]
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> The main conclusions come in two parts. First, 95% of all the stars we see around us today were formed during the past 11 billion years, and about half of these were formed between roughly 11 and 8 billion years ago in a flurry of activity. But the real shocker is that the rate at which new stars are being produced in galaxies today is barely 3% of the rate back 11 billion years ago, and declining. This indicates that unless our universe finds a second wind (which is unlikely) it will only ever manage to produce about 5% more stars than exist at this very moment.
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> This is, quite literally, the beginning of the end.
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