Lecture 45: The Future of Life in the Universe
How will life, the Universe, and everything end? This lecture looks at
the evolution of our expanding Universe to project the prospects for
life into the distant cosmological future. Recent observations show
that we live in an infinite, accelerating universe. I will trace the
evolution of the universe from the current age of stars into the future.
The final state of the Universe will be cold, dark, and disordered, and
ultimately inhospitable to life as we understand it or perhaps can
imagine it. Recorded live on 2009 Dec 3 in Room 1005 Smith Laboratory
on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.