The Universe Has Already Ended
Lets talk about space. It’s a vast expanse of dust and cosmos. Black and mysterious, it never ceases to captivate us when we ogle it throughout the night. New discoveries about our universe are made daily. Recently I came across an article about two galaxies colliding on Gizmodo. For whatever reason, I forgot that light travels and that what we see now is only the light that has traveled to us over time. Almost like a computer with really bad lag. Case and point: the galaxies that are colliding have already collided. But right now the images of them colliding have only begun to reach earth.
Which brings me to the next article I read on io9. Even though we can see the stars light now, the light on some stars are starting to disappear. Meaning that the images of dying stars have arrived to earth and the stars we see now have cease to exists/turned into something else. Which brings me to ask the question:
How do we know the universe hasn’t already ended? We wouldn’t know it because the end hasn’t reached us yet. Certainly we are still alive, but if the universe has exploded, we are still waiting for the explosion to reach us.
