JA WestenbergOct 20

The sun will swallow the Earth.

The galaxies will fade.

Protons will decay.

Your LinkedIn bio will not survive this process.

This is a Good Thing™️

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-insignificant-that-s-a-good-thing

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

A Short Guide to Being Infinitesimally Small

Westenberg.
Show threadStarkRGOct 20
@Daojoan Protons *might* decay, they might not. Even if they don't, though, they will all eventually be so far apart from each other that they'll all be in their own observable Universe.
Show threadChao-c'
@StarkRG Protons were never observed to decay, yet. But I don't know, if it makes sense to add to my bio that I know this fact... not mentioning LinkedIn bio...
@Daojoan
Oct 23 at 10:21amWeb
Show threadStarkRGOct 23

@xChaos @Daojoan Yeah, based on experimental evidence, there are a handful of lower bounds for the predicted half-life of protons (the lowest is 10³⁴ years), assuming they do decay, which are all many orders of magnitude greater than the current age of the Universe (1.4x10¹⁰ years). Maybe someone will see it happen, but they probably won't be human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay#Experimental_evidence

Proton decay - Wikipedia

Show threadChao-c'Oct 23
@StarkRG the problem, that the chance, that they will be able to observe sufficient amount of protons for sufficient long period of time will be always the same, as for us (and this is, where the half-lives get tricky and where bios of scientists and journalists diverge...) @Daojoan