The Universe is Over the Hill.

[Bled Welder]

Isn't the sun a dark crystal?  I think it is.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> Conceptually at least, not new news: in a precursor theory to the big bang<http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/ideas/expanding.htm>,
> Georges Lemaitre called the universe we see "ashes and smoke of bright
> but very rapid fireworks."****
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> From  a thermodynamic POV, too, most of the action has happened: things
> cooled off so fast in the first seconds that even the hottest stars today
> are cryogenic by comparison. Now, we *think* interactions and processes
> were very simple at that ultra-high temperature, i.e. that complexities
> like geology and chemistry and biology can only happen once things have
> cooled way down.****
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> But if some kind of complexity **did** come about a fraction of a second
> after inception, operating with quark chromodynamics and the strong nuclear
> force (many orders of magnitude stronger than the electromagnetism that
> governs nearly all of our experience)… it could have evolved (sensu lato)
> very far very fast.****
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> Gelidly yours,  ****
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> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
> Behalf Of *David Morris
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:25 AM
> *To:* P-list
> *Subject:* The Universe is Over the Hill.****
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> 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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> 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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