{"id":115292,"date":"2020-10-30T05:43:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/episode-22-the-far-future-of-our-universe-turtles-all-the-way-down"},"modified":"2020-10-30T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:43:13","slug":"episode-22-the-far-future-of-our-universe-turtles-all-the-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/episode-22-the-far-future-of-our-universe-turtles-all-the-way-down","title":{"rendered":"Episode 22 \u2014 The Far Future Of Our Universe (Turtles All the Way Down)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/knkny-f0d5aa?mix=1&vjs=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the episode for anyone who has wondered about the fundamental structure of the universe and its extremely distant future \u2014 a time which is so distant that for all practical purposes, it\u2019s almost synonymous with eternity. Black Holes, Fundamental Physics, and the meaning behind the cosmological catchphrase \u2014 Turtles All the Way Down. Please listen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What happens when all the stars in our cosmos\u2019 galaxies burn out; with little or no hydrogen gas left to fuel star formation; and everything pretty much turns to toast? It will presage an age of black holes where extremely low temperatures and fundamental particle decay will alleviate life as we know it. This universal endgame in an almost infinite far future may actually be a Dark Age where little or nothing can happen. And if it does, only on the longest timescales. Yale University astrophysicist Gregory Laughlin and I discuss these and other issues in this cosmological \u201cturtles all the way down\u201d episode of the podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the episode for anyone who has wondered about the fundamental structure of the universe and its extremely distant future \u2014 a time which is so distant that for all practical purposes, it\u2019s almost synonymous with eternity. Black Holes, Fundamental Physics, and the meaning behind the cosmological catchphrase \u2014 Turtles All the Way Down. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}