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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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Seeing Galaxies Is Not Visible Light
At some point it will be impossible for future physicists even with the perfect technology to ever detect it. The reason we can't, we won't be able to see galaxies is that for similar reasons. When stars die, they form what are called white dwarfs. And so this is kind of less lively than it is today. By the time you get into a quadrillion years, all solar systems will have been collections of degenerate stars.
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