MathiasTCK.bsky.socialI'm getting flashbacks to 1998 when I did a short tour of #CALphysics for undergrad.
(I went with computer science at #UCSC instead.)
The article briefly mentions the importance of keeping up with programming languages, for #physicists, and I was thinking CS would help either way.
Lots of great quotes it's got:
" #DarkEnergy appeared to lose its kick several billion years ago."
"the idea that our universe will end in #HeatDeath has escaped the dull, technical world of academic textbooks."
"It has become one of our dominant secular eschatologies, and perhaps the best-known #EndTimes story for the cosmos. And yet it could be badly wrong. If #DarkEnergy weakens all the way to zero, the universe may, at some point, stop expanding."
"It could come to rest in some static configuration of galaxies. Life, especially #IntelligentLife, could go on for a much longer time than previously expected."
"If #DarkEnergy continues to fade, as the #DESI results suggest is happening, it may indeed go all the way to zero, and then #TurnNegative. Instead of #RepellingGalaxies, a #NegativeDarkenergy would bring them together into a hot, dense #singularity, "
"much like the one that existed during the #BigBang. This could perhaps be part of some larger #EternalCycleOfCreation and re-creation."
" #DarkEnergy appeared to lose its kick #SeveralBillionYearsAgo."