The discoverer of the first exoplanet speaks to EL PAÍS about the next big breakthrough he hopes to see: the first planet with life outside the solar system
Even if we somehow manage to fix our political garbage, go full solarpunk, move to mars before the Sun explodes, and start invading other solar systems, there is only so much free energy left in the universe, the end is certain.
Do you know anything about black holes or dwarf stars? Like roughly how long they last? Also you seem to think heat death is for sure and it’s not. Not at all. It’s the current most popular theory but crunch and rip are still fully possible.
Well, I have worked with Kerr and Schwarzschild black holes in the past but only for looking at stable orbits around them and not accounting for evaporation.
Yeah, I know that it takes a few billion years for a black hole to evaporate or to a dwarf to finally die. So what? It’s simple thermodynamics, you don’t even need to know how any celestial body behaves at all, the universe dies for the same reason your coffee cools down.
Clinging to life is survivorship bias 🙃
Even if we somehow manage to fix our political garbage, go full solarpunk, move to mars before the Sun explodes, and start invading other solar systems, there is only so much free energy left in the universe, the end is certain.
Do you know anything about black holes or dwarf stars? Like roughly how long they last? Also you seem to think heat death is for sure and it’s not. Not at all. It’s the current most popular theory but crunch and rip are still fully possible.
Silly scifi goth
Well, I have worked with Kerr and Schwarzschild black holes in the past but only for looking at stable orbits around them and not accounting for evaporation.
Yeah, I know that it takes a few billion years for a black hole to evaporate or to a dwarf to finally die. So what? It’s simple thermodynamics, you don’t even need to know how any celestial body behaves at all, the universe dies for the same reason your coffee cools down.
…big RIP
Based on what we know right now, I agree. There is more about physics that we don’t understand than what we do, and who knows what might be harnessed!
Humans won’t be doing any of the harnessing, of course. That species is fucked.