{"id":80463,"date":"2018-07-08T12:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/how-will-future-civilizations-survive-the-accelerating-expansion-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2018-07-08T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T19:42:24","slug":"how-will-future-civilizations-survive-the-accelerating-expansion-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/how-will-future-civilizations-survive-the-accelerating-expansion-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"How Will Future Civilizations Survive the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-will-future-civilizations-survive-the-accelerating-expansion-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you think we have problems now, just wait a few billion years, when the accelerating expansion of the Universe triggers an energy crisis of cosmological proportions. Sounds grim, but as a new paper points out, an advanced civilization faced with doom won\u2019t have to go gently into that good night\u2014there may very well be a way to rage against the dying of the light.<\/p>\n<p>Owing to the inexorable influence of dark energy, the space in our Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. We don\u2019t need to worry about this right now, but for those civilizations still around tens of billions of years from now, it\u2019ll probably be a major headache. By this stage, galaxies outside of our Local Group\u2014a conglomeration of about 54 nearby galaxies\u2014will be moving away from us faster than their light can reach us, making them completely inobservable, and by consequence, utterly inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-will-future-civilizations-survive-the-accelerating-1827395590\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-will-future-civilizations-survive-th...1827395590<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think we have problems now, just wait a few billion years, when the accelerating expansion of the Universe triggers an energy crisis of cosmological proportions. Sounds grim, but as a new paper points out, an advanced civilization faced with doom won\u2019t have to go gently into that good night\u2014there may very well be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80463","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}