Only Two Cosmic Doomsdays Are Certain

The sardonic proverb “nothing is certain but death and taxes,” can now be recast for the cosmos.

Last week’s announcement of the inevitable collision of the Andromeda galaxy with the Milky Way is one of only two apocalyptic astronomical predictions that we can be absolutely certain of. The other is the death of our sun. Purely deterministic processes drive both.

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Source: news.discovery.com

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    this actually kind of excites me. it might be the Carl Sagan nerd in me.
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    i suppose it would be a quick death
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    It’s Gonna Be Huge!
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    Wicked.
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    But which will come first?