The End Of Everything

(Astrophysically Speaking)

001 Sun red giant in 5 billion years, engulfing Venus, Earth charred to magma
- KL: unless we move it with flyby momentum transfer from Jupiter ... Gregory Laughlin, Don Korycansky, Fred Adams, The Conversation Matteo Ceriotti
006 cosmic inflation might happen again (?)
009 bouncing neutron in gravity
039 theory of inflation, an explanation for thermal uniformity and mass nonuniformity
040 inflation until 1e-34 sec, quark era until 1e-6 sec, plasma until 380K years and transparency
049 reionization until 1e9 years
051 Andromeda approaching 110 km/s, collision in 4e9 years
067 Vera Rubin 1970s evidence -> dark matter
080 Cosmological constant 120 orders of magnitude smaller than quantum field theory suggests
082 Observable universe (from very early stars, when expansion was less) is 45 billion light years across
083 Hubble radius us 14B ly away
084 distant supernovae to redshift 4, most distant galaxies redshift 11, cosmic microwave background to redshift 1100
087 apparent size of galaxies increases beyond Hubble radius
089 Proton decay 1e33 years?
097 Matter is 30%, dark energy is 70%
109 equation of state parameter w, if less than -1, doomsday
114 more than 188G years from now
126 Hubble constant 74 km/s/Mpc ... 1/4.2e21s ... 1/13e14y
131 Review of speculative "disaster scenarios" at RHIC