The end of the world It is a clear matter of obsession for humanity and in particular for the scientific community, who have not stopped addressing the issue in one way or another throughout the last century and the current one.
So naturally in all terrains there are endeavors and projects some more formal than others, seeking to calculate with the greatest possible certainty when the end times will begin for our galaxy, our solar system or our planet.
If you, dear reader, have read the headline of this note, perhaps you will be able to hastily conclude that the information that we will share here does not really have scientific support and is the product of sensationalism.
But the surprise, for better or for worse, is that this time we will actually comment on a scientifically based study that seeks to calculate the date of the end of the world and our planetary system.
The good news, if it can be put that way, is that time is absolutely relative for human beings and the age of our galaxy.
The end of the world would be closer than imagined but it is not so terrible for humans
The universe is extraordinarily vast and we actually know very little with scientific certainty about the deeper mysteries of how it is put together.
Aware of this, the theory that has been most consolidated on the origin of this immense astral formation is that of the Big Bang, in which the planets, solar systems and galaxies expand slowly but steadily.
The postulates that evolved from this theory suggest that a period of contraction will eventually come due to the inertia of the phenomenon itself, which would lead to a collapse of the balances known today. And that is where the calculation of the end of the world and of times becomes complex.
A scientific study published by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April 2022, is one of the most recent projects to estimate when the expansion of the universe could end, to then start the countdown to contraction and cataclysm.
According to his calculations, this expansion could end in “barely” 65 million years. A term that definitely no one reading this will see, but which is actually quite short for any previous estimate.
The key factor for this advancement of the end would be the presence of the so-called “dark energy”, an element that in theory today prevents the contraction from occurring.
But according to study co-author Paul Steinhardt, who is also director of the Center for Theoretical Sciences at Princeton University in New Jersey, this dark energy, also called quintessence, could decay over time, causing a serious slowdown. .
This phenomenon that would trigger the contraction of everything would happen “remarkably soon” and there is even other studies that aim to reaffirm that theory.
But still, there are millions of years left for that to happen, in theory. So there is nothing to worry about.